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Not less of a person, no. Read the thread before you get all defensive. But clearly lacking in perspective about the demands placed on those of us in the private sector and how expecting teachers to be client focussed and deal with inane questions and helicopter clients is what most of us call a regular day at the office. Read. Think. Then reply. [/quote]

Your job in the private sector is to deal with your clients. Your children's teacher's clients are not their parents, it's the children. 
Do you deal with the questions of parents of your clients in addition to your clients themselves?[/quote]

I think your position is crazy.  A 3 year old is not qualified to judge or assess anything.  Neither is a 10 or 14 year old for that matter.  The customers of public education are the parents and guardians.  They are also the ones paying the bills.  And to stick with your analogy, yes, the executives of my clients who pay the bills and their board members are also my clients, even though my day to day contacts and the consumers of my services are farther down the chain.  And I am frequently called on to meet with, counsel and schmooze my client's boards and execs to make sure I manage the holistic relationship.

Bit this is a useful discussion.  You think the students are the customers; I think it's the parents and guardians.  That probably explains our differing positions.[/quote]

I don't think you are crazy, but I think you are massively ignorant of the amount of time and energy it takes to plan effective lessons and complete assessments when not actually teaching, and when you expect the teacher to spend time catering to your non-essential demands for attention and filler chat, you are preventing her from completing the work essential to your (and everyone else's) child's education.  You don't know exactly what teachers do.  Do you know what happens when teachers are forced to cater to parents like you?  Lesson quality decreases, and not because the teacher gives up in a fit of pique: people like you hog and monopolize teachers' time to the extent that there is not enough left for education planning and implementation.

I've had a version of this conversation many times with my grandma, who was a teacher in age in which she had the luxury of adequate time to plan and teach properly.  [/quote]

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