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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.[/quote]

This is true. I’m a teacher and my administration can never help me with anything because they are either running around putting out fires, dealing with seniors who are failing, trying to get a handle on truancy when we have no leverage on the issue, or dealing with some repeat crazy parents. And while the vast majority of parents are either completely reasonable or unfortunately completely disengaged, every school has some crazy parents who suck up everybody’s time [/quote]

Our principal and ap refuses to return calls and emails even if it’s a bad situation or crisis.  Some of them need to find new professions.  [/quote]

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