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[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]

Teachers mostly want all of those things as well - and I doubt it's the same school but as a teacher I also witnessed, many times, years when some poor teacher had to regularly remove her entire class from a room because of a severely disruptive student.  Often that same student was violent toward the other children on a daily basis, and kids were being sent home with all kinds of cuts and bruises from the attacks, and yet parents were never told.  I felt so bad for the kids - we're talking early elementary - who must have been so confused and afraid being in the same room with a kid who would routinely attempt to hurt them for no reason.  [/quote]

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