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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an admin (home on leave) and feel like this post is very, very problematic. First, parents have every right to ask questions, get information, and raise issues with their teachers! We want that engagement (at least I do) and I view my role as a teacher as much as a partner to the parent's role in their child's education. That said, some teachers are not responsive (ignoring emails requesting information for over a week despite a follow up by the parent) or just don't care for parents putting their noses in their classrooms. Some teachers view their room as their kingdom and get touchy when parents ask questions. It should come as no surprise that more often than not, these are the teachers getting complaints from principals mostly. Second, Principals have to juggle competing issues. First, if I have a competent teacher who isn't responsive, I am going to do my best to coach the teacher to be more responsive. If that doesn't work, I will take on the role of working with parents so long as the teacher is competent otherwise. I struggle to fill positions every year and there is a massive teacher shortage in this area. So, I will often take the devil I know versus the devil I don't. Third, if the teacher is incompetent, this will trigger the long painful process of putting together a file to support non-renewal. It's a ton of work, but if the teacher is not only making more work for me, but is generally also incompetent, I will take on the extra work to get rid of that teacher. Finally, I do think the IEP process for emotionally disturbed children results in a year or two where the child is obviously not in the right environment, the child is causing safety issues that require the teacher to clear her classroom on a regular basis and the child is disrupting instruction to the other children. In those situations, I will do my best to mitigate the impact on all learners including the child with suspected ED (though in 20 years I have seen 100 percent of these kids land in an ED center and thrive eventually). I will assign at least an IA to the classroom. I will often require a SPED teacher to spend the LA and Math blocks in that clasroom, and finally, I will probably grant requests from parents who wish that have their child removed. So, there are valid reasons to raise concerns about your child's classroom. And I do not view multiple complaints as evidence of a mob. I am more discerning than OP.[/quote] We had both 3 and 4 happen to one of our DCs in a single year, and were very grateful the administration handled it as you did. I'm sure we weren't the only parents bubbling up issues.[/quote]
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