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[quote=Anonymous][quote] OP. I've had the opposite happen. Once in my child's first year of school, I asked to meet with the teacher to follow up on a reading issue after the fall conference only to find out that I couldn't unless I met with the teacher and the principal and the specialist as a witness to our conversation and to back up the teacher. I hadn't even met the other people and neither had my child. There were no issues at the conference, but the experience turned me off from helping the school after weeing their defensive reaction. I think people should always discuss an issue one on one if possible before escalating it.[/quote]

Gee.  I taught school and I never had that happen.  Sounds like maybe this teacher has had issues in the past.

I did have one principal who wanted to approve ALL notes that the teacher sent home.  (This was before email.)  He quickly learned that that was not reasonable. Most of the notes that I sent home were pretty straightforward , could you remind Johnny to bring in his library book--that type of thing.  It was a pain to get the principal to approve that type of thing.[/quote]

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