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[quote]I'm an MCPS teacher who strongly believes in public education, but I send my kids to Catholic school. I live in the neighborhood where I teach and the parents here are out of control. They refuse to hold their kids accountable, let them fail, or accept consequences. The entitlement of some of these kids is outrageous. The Catholic school my kids attend has a strong discipline system and the parents support it. [/quote]

[quote]This was true of us as well. The students at my W feeder were so out of control that I laughed when my principal suggested I COSA my child there. It was hard managing private ES on two MCPS salaries, but we made it to the age DC could latchkey. Discipline is less of a problem at my child’s DCC MS than the school where I teach. Looking to transfer away from parents with their heads in the sand and a lawyer on speed dial.[/quote]

two-teacher (MCPS) HH

We're moving out of county.  I simply cannot stand the excuses made for poor behavior, and I say this for ALL kids - regardless of race and SES status.  The parents with money use their lawyers to threaten the schools.  So even if the schools try to hold kids to certain standards of behavior and academic performance, parents intervene.  Minorities are also held to different standards, which is - in itself - racist.  Pushing a kid along - one who can't read on level - and blaming the teachers for issues beyond our control are two reasons that have soured me.

And guess what?  I blame us!  Until we start rocking the boat and taking our professions back, we will always be pawns.  sad, but true

If you think MCPS is worth saving, then inundate the BOE with letters.

One email address - boe@mcpsmd.org - goes out to all.

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I'm assuming you have perfect kids.  Lucky you.  You do realize that as a teacher, YOU failed a child if they cannot read.  That child should have been assessed and given significant interventions by 1st grade and parents shouldn't have to fight for basic supports.  We've spent a fortune on private interventions to keep our child at grade level because MCPS services and help are a joke.  Teachers are to blame.  They need to help advocate for kids and not let them fall through the cracks.  Our teacher clearly identified one area of need.  We held an IEP mention where we and the teacher agreed and they refused to give my child the basic support they needed.  So, instead, they failed him on that subject area in the report card we got a few days later and they never ever mentioned that he was going to fail in that IEP meeting (this a a two day difference).  [/quote]

I am only taking blame for failing to advocate for my profession.  How dare you accuse me of any professional "wrongdoing" when you have NO IDEA what goes on in schools on a daily basis.  You respond on a board, making a blanket generalization about teachers.  While I try to avoid generalizations, I've encountered more and more parents like you over the past three years. You assume teachers are to blame for societal ills.  I have two children of my own, and while I'm a teacher, I'm a parent first. As such, my husband and I are their first teachers.

Please tell me how I - a secondary teacher - am responsible for your child's failure.  I am NOT a special educator.  I have in-depth knowledge of MAPr but do not possess a reading degree and therefore am not comfortable with foundational skills to be mastered between pre-K and grade 5.  And while I have brought low readers to the attention of counselors, colleagues, and administrators, the only people who seemed concerned were my colleagues with whom I shared students.

Again, what gives YOU the right to knock us down?  especially after I have been told on many occasions by administrators that Athlete X, who could barely read at a 5th grade level, would be promoted because of his athletic prowess on the field

For your information, no child is perfect.  My youngest had speech delays and problems with fine motor skills.  He went through the county first and then we supplemented with private services.  I spent quite a bit on cursive instruction for him b/c using print was too laborious for him.

You are NOT the only parent in the world with children facing obstacles - academic and/or emotional.  Please remember that the next time you find the need to displace your hostility upon educators doing their best to survive each day.

You are a big reason why many good educators flee the profession.  [/quote]

If you know a 5th grader cannot read, then yes, you and your school failed this child by not getting him the support he needed.  If you did not have the background you either initiate or help the parents strongly advocate for an appropriate IEP with a reading specialist who can help.  You take that extra few minutes to work with the child lagging behind instead of ignoring the issue.  I am amazed at our IEP meetings how the teacher and we will say the same thing and how the specialists and admin blow us off because child is ok in the testing scores.  Its sad how sometimes it is the simple things that can make a difference but too many people are like you and say, sorry, not my job, so I don need to help.

Yes, I hope parents like me help to weed out the bad teachers and other professionals. [/quote]

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