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Not less of a person, no. Read the thread before you get all defensive. But clearly lacking in perspective about the demands placed on those of us in the private sector and how expecting teachers to be client focussed and deal with inane questions and helicopter clients is what most of us call a regular day at the office. Read. Think. Then reply. [/quote]

Your job in the private sector is to deal with your clients. Your children's teacher's clients are not their parents, it's the children. 
Do you deal with the questions of parents of your clients in addition to your clients themselves?[/quote]

I think your position is crazy.  A 3 year old is not qualified to judge or assess anything.  Neither is a 10 or 14 year old for that matter.  The customers of public education are the parents and guardians.  They are also the ones paying the bills.  And to stick with your analogy, yes, the executives of my clients who pay the bills and their board members are also my clients, even though my day to day contacts and the consumers of my services are farther down the chain.  And I am frequently called on to meet with, counsel and schmooze my client's boards and execs to make sure I manage the holistic relationship.

Bit this is a useful discussion.  You think the students are the customers; I think it's the parents and guardians.  That probably explains our differing positions.[/quote]

Crazy PP here. It's my position that the parents are the clients of the school/principal. You chose a school. You did not choose a teacher. That's not up to you. You pay the bills of a school and the principal and vp are the ones that run it. A teacher is something that changes from year to year and sometimes even more than that. A teacher's direct clients and dealings are their students. [/quote]

Then why do principals always tell parents to take their issues to the teacher first (I've never met one who didn't)? Clearly the principal thinks teachers should be working with parents.[/quote]

Principals - for the most part - are largely useless, overpaid, political bureaucrats. See that stupidly flashy car in the lot? Always the principal's vehicle. [/quote]

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