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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it any different than prior years?  And is it purely about teachers being disgruntled?  It sounds like some teachers moved because they....uh....wanted their kids to go to school in person and they are just staying someplace else?[/quote]

I’m leaving my NW ES purely bc the families showed themselves to be really rude and entitled during the reopening period. I’m very excited to get out of the toxic W3 school culture.[/quote]

So are you going to a different DCPS?  Or what?[/quote]

Yep different DCPS EOTP don’t want to get too detailed on here but it wasn’t too hard to find a school happy to take on a teacher with 5 straight years of highly effective scores. Looking forward to getting back to working with kids instead of placating overbearing parents[/quote]

translation: you don’t want to be held accountable by parents so you’re moving to a school where you hope that less affluent parents will be less uppity. [/quote]

It’s not your job though. It’s the job of your child’s teachers, principal and district leadership. I think the issue is exacerbated in many upper NW schools bc parents think that they’re entitled to private school type accommodations from their teachers and forget that public schools only can do so much.

DP.  It’s not being held accountable. It’s parents being overbearing and “bulldozer” parents.  [/quote]

Overbearing "bulldozer" parents are why those schools opened.  And hence why PP is moving to a school where parents demand less accountability.  She doesn't like it. [/quote]

Yes you opened the schools. Great. But when you continue to act like that pre and post pandemic. It’s runs people out.  I have one parent who emails me at least 4 times A DAY. And complains about every single thing you can think of.  Everything.  Attempts to debate every single assignment grade, every assessment, etc.  This parent is an extreme example and their kid is literally the hot potato of the grade.  But if you have 10-15 kids like this with the parents acting even 25% this crazy...it runs teachers out.  People can only deal with things like this so long. [/quote]

Fellow teacher here who appreciates the term “hot potato”. It is so true that obnoxious parents earn a reputation among teachers at a school and NOBODY wants their kid in their class. Parents should know that the lack of respect you might choose to show teachers ends up impacting your child negatively. As much as we all try to put blinders on to spare the child any negative feelings we might have toward their parent, we’re only human. And we DEFINITELY don’t want to have to deal with YOU on a daily basis. So even if your child is wonderful we still hope they’ll end up in someone else’s class. [/quote]

nice threat there. and you wonder why more vulnerable/less savvy parents EOTR keep their mouths shut? Due to explicit or implicit threats like this. I have no choice but to advocate for my kid. It’s my job. And if parents had stayed silent this year our school would still be closed, and DL would have been even more if a sh*tshow that it was. [/quote][/quote]

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