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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent here. Here's what I want.

1. A standard curriculum with real, approved textbooks, workbooks, work sheets and none of that TPT comic sans bullshit that contains grammatical errors. I would like the instructional designers at FCPS to do their jobs so that my kid doesn't come home with worksheets created by a 22 year old who doesn't know what the hell she's talking about, but sure can buy some pretty clip art on Etsy.

2. Less testing and less preparation for testing.

3. Full weeks of school without random holidays and teacher workdays on Mondays and Fridays of the same week (put them where they make sense).

4. Better support for ESOL/SPED kids AS WELL AS those children who don't have special needs but are far behind their classmates. A parent shouldn't have to pay $5000 for someone to find a mild disability and then hire a lawyer or advocate in order for their child to get extra reading/math help. PLUS there are a lot of parents who can't afford to do that but their kids still need a little extra help. Not everyone can afford to spend the $1000/month on tutors that I do.

5. Actual discipline for children who are consistently misbehaving and disrupting class. There was a year when at least twice a week, half of someone else's class would have to pour into my child's classroom because of one kid. Why aren't schools removing the problem child so that the other kids can keep learning?[/quote]

Teacher here.

1) Textbooks should be used as a resource not a curriculum. Even when I was in school, our textbook was used for HW not instruction. The only textbook in ES that would be helpful is math. The reading levels are too varied for content textbooks to be useful.

2) Totally agree. The testing as gotten out of control.

3) I support having the holidays off, but we have waaay to many PD days that can be school days for Full Weeks.

4)  Yes, but this is also tricky. If there is data to support a kid needs intervention/ help then they should be getting it regardless of label. The issue I have seen more of are when kids are inconsistent in performance and are passing their SOLS. It is very hard to figure out what the issue is.

5) I think parents in general would be disgusted with what they see in the classroom regarding behavior. Yes, there are individual problem children but there is also a lit of disrespect coming from kids to the teacher. Parents also need to be on board with consequences and this seems to be the larger issue. [/quote]

You're quoting me and I agree on #5 - we're pretty strict parents with well behaved children who are natural rule followers, so we really lucked out on that, but have heard stories from our children about some of the things that go on in their classroom and I am shocked that [b]it's allowed[/b]. I get that we live in a litigious society and that the behavior is tied frequently to the lack of action on the part of parents. I just wish there was something that could be done about it (I know we can't put that on the teacher, trust me).[/quote]

I’m an ES teacher (almost 30 years). I had a very difficult time with behaviors last year. I often couldn’t go 5 minutes without a disruption. I didn’t allow it, but I was basically powerless to stop it.[/quote]

I had a chair thrower/desk flipper last year. I can’t suspend the students or enforce other consequences, that is on admin. [/quote]

I read some comments on a Fox News story about allowing military veterans to teach. People were saying that military veterans wouldn’t put up with what we put up with. I was thinking, “Sure, and you’re going to do what…?”.[/quote]

I’m the PP, that teaching style would have been a trigger for him. [/quote]

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