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[quote=Anonymous]This is a teaching moment and shouldn't be wasted. Explain to your DC about what the note means (your work was messy and your teacher wants you to turn in the type of neat work of which you are capable. Remember how you had to rush to complete this homework... Well it looks like your teacher noticed.) We are paying a lot of money to put our kids in private schools so our kids don't slip through the cracks  and our held accountable for their actions/omissions. By intervening here, you are setting the tone that your DC is not to be criticized because the distinction that DC may be constructively criticized in a better tone with more ecoraging words will be lost. On a related note, I see on my 3rd graders travel soccer team that there are several Private school school kids who break into tears when the coach "criticizes" aka coaches rather than coddle them. Without exception their parents are the one intervening on the sidelines that the other team is fouling (not the case) and taking the coach aside after practice. It is sad for the girls to not be allowed the blessing of a bruises knee.[/quote]

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