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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my daughter had her admissions interview at Sidwell for HS, she asked about the relationship between students and teachers and was told by the interviewer (also a teacher), "teachers are not your friends".  Was such a weird response. [/quote]

But guess what....this is 100% true. It's sad.  They aren't your friends and most don't want to be your mentors or cheerleaders either. It's so unhealthy. It's like a bunch of PhDs who didn't get a tenure track job and never cared about educating teenagers decided that teaching at a school with prestige might help them save face...and then, even worse, must compete with one another to be the hardest of them all.[/quote]
Being a friend and being a mentor or cheerleader are different things. Teachers are not and should not be students’ “friends.” They should be mentors and coaches and cheerleaders, and the good ones are. In fact, just about every teacher my kid has had across three privates schools from toddler to HS have done this well — but I wouldn’t call any of them my child’s friend. [/quote]

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