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[quote=Anonymous]Hi OP, I hear you.. good luck with your efforts but also you need to understand the reality. I am full of compassion for the teachers of MCPS and any other public system for that matter. I am not familiar with private school resources but having some experience with hard working teachers in MCPS I will tell you one thing.. what you are thinking to do is a very noble and smart as a parent but also impossible and almost unimplementable as far as the teacher. If you ever come close to see what an average teacher does.. you will understand why it is impossible.
Imagine a teacher having close to 30 kids in the classroom, having to prepare the instructions, the materials, then teach, then grade, then go to meetings, then focus on individual  needs of a class full of kids running the gamut skill wise from overachievers, gifted and above the material.. through kids who are struggling with everything.. and then also you have kids who do struggle with language, math, etc.. then you have kids with all kinds of personal problems, home problems, then you have kids who have all kinds of personality situations, then you have kids who are bully and those who are being bullied.. you have six hours to provide instructions, eat your lunch and do impossible...

I do appreciate and always did when a teacher was incredibly organized and had tons of experience in the field and was willing and able to provide updates on what is covered in the class, but I also stopped expecting it very quickly realizing that teachers do titanic!!! work. I on the other hand as a smart parent was able quickly learn to figure it out from the work brought home and from the conversation with a kid what is covered in the class, what needs to be addressed on the home front if anything..

Imagine a teacher having 25 to 30 kids with such a great variety of abilities, personalities, academic struggles, problems in and out of school etc.. now imagine if each and every parent would expect not only to be informed what is being thought daily but also what is that your very own child might benefit from catching up with or broadening. It is impossible and it would also take forever to write or communicate with each parent daily or even weekly, imagine the amount of time and effort that it would take the teacher, and also that this time would need to be taken either from teaching or from the personal family time of the teacher.

If you have a bright kid you will do just fine, you will just need to evaluate yourself from time to time what a kid knows and what is to supplement. It is as simple as that. You don't need a teacher for that. For the rest is the teacher parent conference.  Also as others provided if you have standards and guidance from the system or otherwise you are half way there anyway..

Please do not take away the precious time from the teacher beyond what is fair to everyone and  you and your child. Please let the teacher teach and focus on teaching, and do not take the time from the rest of the kids, or the teacher's personal time. They are people with families and their own kids and they need to rest and relax to face the next tough day.

Thank you and good luck!
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