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[quote=Anonymous]MCPS teacher here who can't possibly read the entire list of replies without vomiting, but to the PP who thinks the teacher has something to do with the email address- um, yeah, that's taken care of at the registrar-enrollment-county level.  Remember enrolling your kid in kindergarten?  Remember filling out the data forms with the parent / guardian info?  Well, you put your email address on that, and then MCPS put it into the MyMCPS system that teachers use to find student contact information.  If it's wrong in there, it's not your kid's teacher's fault.  I'm sure it has ruined your precious snowflake's life, but look on the bright side- it has given you a sworn enemy.  Now you have something to which you can dedicate your brain space.

I don't teach elementary, I teach high school, so instead of 30 kids, I deal with 130+ in a day.  Do I claim to know the kids better than their parents do?  Absolutely not.  But I know from first-hand experience that there is nothing more challenging than being an elementary school teacher.  At least by the time the kids get to me, they've been "vetted."  They are grouped by ability / level to the extent that there aren't vast chasms that separate the knowledge and ability of some students from that of others.  In a kindergarten classroom, the teacher is grappling, by herself, with children who can read chapter books and children who don't even know how to turn a book so that the print is right-side up.  All the while she is told that she has to "differentiate the instruction," meaning somehow teach everyone at the same time to each unique ability / understanding.  She also can't hurt any feelings, damage any self esteem, she's going to be evaluated on her progress, and several teachers are going to bring in sample lesson plans from TPT?

I challenge each of you to spend time with a group of 30 youngsters BY YOURSELF.  Oh, and try to teach them something- don't just let them whack at a piñata and eat pizza and think you've handled something, like at a child's birthday.

To the OP, MCPS is my fourth public school system after several moves around the country.  I am your age, and the differences I see in parents (because I've always taught in middle-upper-middle class school systems) has had more to do with time rather than location.  Life was easier when parents couldn't contact us around the clock, and nit-pick everything that we're now required to post online.  All technology has done is unleash the crazy.  They were always over-entitled and crazy- but now you get to hear about it when the irrational emoting first starts to bubble up.   Parents used to have to sit and stew and really formulate their thoughts before picking up the phone.  [/quote]

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