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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since we’re going to dump on Deal teachers, it would be nice if they would respond to my emails about my kid’s extra credit work. [/quote]

Maybe it would be nice for you to land the helicopter and see if your kid could advocate for themselves.  That’s part of the thing at Deal - teaching kids how to take responsibility for their own stuff.  Are you going to be emailing college professors too?  And please do respond with something like “DC can’t handle that” - that’s a a you problem, not the schools.[/quote]

Completely disagree. Deal doesn’t teach kids how to be self-sufficient as it does to expose kids to rely on their parents as much. As a current teacher there, there are about 80% really good, kind, and loving parents. However, that other 20% are fire-breathing loudmouths who run the school from their political connections, insane demands of administrators and staff, to the unreasonable asks of teachers and even their own children. That 20% usually have the loudest voice and most power and make it miserable to teach there because they have the most sway over upper NW politics.

Regardless of whether the OP is a teacher or a parent, I’d argue that, from a current Deal teacher’s perspective, that’s the real controversy. [/quote]

That's really too bad and I'm sorry you are dealing with that - genuinely.  I'm sure these idiots make it really tough to teach at Deal and at a JKLM; we know a lot of them so we totally get it.  In fact, these are the type of parents I'm dumping on - the ones who infantilize their children through high school.  It does the kids a real disservice and they end up paying in college and in the workplace when mommy and daddy can't get them out of their shit.[/quote]

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