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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's amazing how parents these days can twist any situation to place the blame on the teachers. Good luck in college![/quote]

Are college professors going to call parents about a college student’s behavior?  
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Here is a pro tip: teachers DO NOT want to call you. If we are calling it is because your kid is doing something that ultimately negatively impacts their own academics and if it looks like your kid might fail because of it, we are required to contact you. If it gets to the point we are calling, when we do not want to have to do that, it means we have exhausted all the interventions, redirections, strategies available to us as the teacher and it’s now at a level where YOU, the parent, who has more available interventions and strategies to use with your child that we do not, need to be aware and taking action.

Don’t get annoyed that we’re calling you. Understand that it means we have absolutely done what we can on our end and it’s now time for you to pick up the baton. Or, failing that, at least you have been made aware so that when your kid ultimately does get that F, you can’t claim “nobody told me” and blame us for not telling you so you could help. [/quote]

I posted above.  My child does not have a phone.  
I have never had a teacher call me with suggested interventions that only I can implement from home that will improve my child’s school performance during the day.  
I also don’t see anything suggested in this thread other than taking away his phone.

If teachers really were calling me to tell me that it would be helpful if I did xyz thing at home, and they told my child that it was expected that he did xyz thing at home, that would be great.  
If they called and were like, I just need to inform you that your child is failing this class, that would also be fine.

That’s never what happens though.  It’s always the reverse.  They call me and ask me what I think they should do during the school day.  I don’t know.  This is literally the only child I have ever had to help get through the 10th grade.  I have no experience and no education in this.    [/quote]

If your kid doesn’t have a phone and teachers aren’t calling about it then I am not talking about you. [/quote]

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