Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The week teacher assignments came out one parent emailed to discuss her child. I agreed to do so but now it’s turned into emails daily if not more than one a day. I typically respond at the end of the day but that is not enough as her employer expects a prompt response from her therefore she expects the same from me. I reminded her that I teach throughout the day and don’t have access to email. She then went as far to request my daily schedule so she could “better time her correspondence to ensure a prompt response.”

I’m not a new teacher so this doesn’t rattle me as it would have 15 years ago. I spoke to the child’s teacher from last year and there was eventually an intervention with the assistant head of school.

Her child has no special needs that have been publicly disclosed so it’s not even related to accommodations, just touching base on how I am supporting learning needs, offering challenges specific to the strengths of her DD, etc. Less than a week of school and my inbox is already full!

Dear Mrs. Smith,

I am so glad that you are so invested in Larla's success in the classroom. I appreciate your desire for prompt and regular communication from me, but unfortunately with 25 students, a full-time teaching schedule and all the administrative duties, I do not have time to have daily communication with every parent. Please continue to send your messages to me and I will review them and respond as my other duties allow. When there is an urgent need, I will communicate with you promptly. Thank you for your understanding.

Mrs. Jones.

Please cut it out with Larla it's annoying

No. Deal with it.

Anonymous wrote:While I appreciate the difficult situation the OP is in- that parent sounds awful, their post title is provocative and hostile.
You have a bad apple but you seem to imply there are tons of terrible evil helicopters out there.
I'll give you the flip side of the coin:
We are the parents that don't speak up for fear of retribution. We have multiple kids in our k-12, Private is a very serious financial investment for our family yet we do not feel empowered to speak up for our kids for fear of being labeled trouble-makers. We have run into snotty
self-righteous and entitled teachers in our journey. We have paid for the private option to have smaller class sizes with opportunities to interact with teachers and most are great, but some are really terrible . However we understand the bad ones are not the majority and therefore would not make post like the Op's trying to stir up animosity between teachers and parents.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The week teacher assignments came out one parent emailed to discuss her child. I agreed to do so but now it’s turned into emails daily if not more than one a day. I typically respond at the end of the day but that is not enough as her employer expects a prompt response from her therefore she expects the same from me. I reminded her that I teach throughout the day and don’t have access to email. She then went as far to request my daily schedule so she could “better time her correspondence to ensure a prompt response.”

I’m not a new teacher so this doesn’t rattle me as it would have 15 years ago. I spoke to the child’s teacher from last year and there was eventually an intervention with the assistant head of school.

Her child has no special needs that have been publicly disclosed so it’s not even related to accommodations, just touching base on how I am supporting learning needs, offering challenges specific to the strengths of her DD, etc. Less than a week of school and my inbox is already full!

Dear Mrs. Smith,

I am so glad that you are so invested in Larla's success in the classroom. I appreciate your desire for prompt and regular communication from me, but unfortunately with 25 students, a full-time teaching schedule and all the administrative duties, I do not have time to have daily communication with every parent. Please continue to send your messages to me and I will review them and respond as my other duties allow. When there is an urgent need, I will communicate with you promptly. Thank you for your understanding.

Mrs. Jones.

Please cut it out with Larla it's annoying

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The week teacher assignments came out one parent emailed to discuss her child. I agreed to do so but now it’s turned into emails daily if not more than one a day. I typically respond at the end of the day but that is not enough as her employer expects a prompt response from her therefore she expects the same from me. I reminded her that I teach throughout the day and don’t have access to email. She then went as far to request my daily schedule so she could “better time her correspondence to ensure a prompt response.”

I’m not a new teacher so this doesn’t rattle me as it would have 15 years ago. I spoke to the child’s teacher from last year and there was eventually an intervention with the assistant head of school.

Her child has no special needs that have been publicly disclosed so it’s not even related to accommodations, just touching base on how I am supporting learning needs, offering challenges specific to the strengths of her DD, etc. Less than a week of school and my inbox is already full!

This is so telling. There’s always a subset of parents who seem to think you are their employee. I hope your admin nipped that sh*t in the bud.

Who pays the taxes

Anonymous wrote:While I appreciate the difficult situation the OP is in- that parent sounds awful, their post title is provocative and hostile.
You have a bad apple but you seem to imply there are tons of terrible evil helicopters out there.
I'll give you the flip side of the coin:
We are the parents that don't speak up for fear of retribution. We have multiple kids in our k-12, Private is a very serious financial investment for our family yet we do not feel empowered to speak up for our kids for fear of being labeled trouble-makers. We have run into snotty
self-righteous and entitled teachers in our journey. We have paid for the private option to have smaller class sizes with opportunities to interact with teachers and most are great, but some are really terrible . However we understand the bad ones are not the majority and therefore would not make post like the Op's trying to stir up animosity between teachers and parents.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope you involved your admin the second she asked for your schedule (and did not give it to her). That's the perfect opportunity for your admin to respond with something like "Ms. Payne, Teachers at Great Day are teaching and working with students from 7:30am - 3:30pm. It is not feasible for your child's teacher to respond to daily emails that are not critical in nature, but if you feel you need to speak about an urgent matter you can always email me, and if it is urgent I will arrange a meeting with you." Or whatever. You shouldn't even had to have responded to that egregious request.

Yes, please do that, Teacher Poster. I hope this parent doesn't take out their obvious mental illness on their child. You can deal with it, you're a grown up and not living or dependent on this parent. But the poor child has to endure that level of anxiety and obsession day after day. Ugh.

Anonymous wrote:I hope you involved your admin the second she asked for your schedule (and did not give it to her). That's the perfect opportunity for your admin to respond with something like "Ms. Payne, Teachers at Great Day are teaching and working with students from 7:30am - 3:30pm. It is not feasible for your child's teacher to respond to daily emails that are not critical in nature, but if you feel you need to speak about an urgent matter you can always email me, and if it is urgent I will arrange a meeting with you." Or whatever. You shouldn't even had to have responded to that egregious request.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The week teacher assignments came out one parent emailed to discuss her child. I agreed to do so but now it’s turned into emails daily if not more than one a day. I typically respond at the end of the day but that is not enough as her employer expects a prompt response from her therefore she expects the same from me. I reminded her that I teach throughout the day and don’t have access to email. She then went as far to request my daily schedule so she could “better time her correspondence to ensure a prompt response.”

I’m not a new teacher so this doesn’t rattle me as it would have 15 years ago. I spoke to the child’s teacher from last year and there was eventually an intervention with the assistant head of school.

Her child has no special needs that have been publicly disclosed so it’s not even related to accommodations, just touching base on how I am supporting learning needs, offering challenges specific to the strengths of her DD, etc. Less than a week of school and my inbox is already full!

Dear Mrs. Smith,

I am so glad that you are so invested in Larla's success in the classroom. I appreciate your desire for prompt and regular communication from me, but unfortunately with 25 students, a full-time teaching schedule and all the administrative duties, I do not have time to have daily communication with every parent. Please continue to send your messages to me and I will review them and respond as my other duties allow. When there is an urgent need, I will communicate with you promptly. Thank you for your understanding.

Mrs. Jones.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The week teacher assignments came out one parent emailed to discuss her child. I agreed to do so but now it’s turned into emails daily if not more than one a day. I typically respond at the end of the day but that is not enough as her employer expects a prompt response from her therefore she expects the same from me. I reminded her that I teach throughout the day and don’t have access to email. She then went as far to request my daily schedule so she could “better time her correspondence to ensure a prompt response.”

I’m not a new teacher so this doesn’t rattle me as it would have 15 years ago. I spoke to the child’s teacher from last year and there was eventually an intervention with the assistant head of school.

Her child has no special needs that have been publicly disclosed so it’s not even related to accommodations, just touching base on how I am supporting learning needs, offering challenges specific to the strengths of her DD, etc. Less than a week of school and my inbox is already full!

This is so telling. There’s always a subset of parents who seem to think you are their employee. I hope your admin nipped that sh*t in the bud.

Who pays the taxes

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The week teacher assignments came out one parent emailed to discuss her child. I agreed to do so but now it’s turned into emails daily if not more than one a day. I typically respond at the end of the day but that is not enough as her employer expects a prompt response from her therefore she expects the same from me. I reminded her that I teach throughout the day and don’t have access to email. She then went as far to request my daily schedule so she could “better time her correspondence to ensure a prompt response.”

I’m not a new teacher so this doesn’t rattle me as it would have 15 years ago. I spoke to the child’s teacher from last year and there was eventually an intervention with the assistant head of school.

Her child has no special needs that have been publicly disclosed so it’s not even related to accommodations, just touching base on how I am supporting learning needs, offering challenges specific to the strengths of her DD, etc. Less than a week of school and my inbox is already full!

This is so telling. There’s always a subset of parents who seem to think you are their employee. I hope your admin nipped that sh*t in the bud.

Who pays the taxes

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The week teacher assignments came out one parent emailed to discuss her child. I agreed to do so but now it’s turned into emails daily if not more than one a day. I typically respond at the end of the day but that is not enough as her employer expects a prompt response from her therefore she expects the same from me. I reminded her that I teach throughout the day and don’t have access to email. She then went as far to request my daily schedule so she could “better time her correspondence to ensure a prompt response.”

I’m not a new teacher so this doesn’t rattle me as it would have 15 years ago. I spoke to the child’s teacher from last year and there was eventually an intervention with the assistant head of school.

Her child has no special needs that have been publicly disclosed so it’s not even related to accommodations, just touching base on how I am supporting learning needs, offering challenges specific to the strengths of her DD, etc. Less than a week of school and my inbox is already full!

This is so telling. There’s always a subset of parents who seem to think you are their employee. I hope your admin nipped that sh*t in the bud.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The week teacher assignments came out one parent emailed to discuss her child. I agreed to do so but now it’s turned into emails daily if not more than one a day. I typically respond at the end of the day but that is not enough as her employer expects a prompt response from her therefore she expects the same from me. I reminded her that I teach throughout the day and don’t have access to email. She then went as far to request my daily schedule so she could “better time her correspondence to ensure a prompt response.”

I’m not a new teacher so this doesn’t rattle me as it would have 15 years ago. I spoke to the child’s teacher from last year and there was eventually an intervention with the assistant head of school.

Her child has no special needs that have been publicly disclosed so it’s not even related to accommodations, just touching base on how I am supporting learning needs, offering challenges specific to the strengths of her DD, etc. Less than a week of school and my inbox is already full!

This is so telling. There’s always a subset of parents who seem to think you are their employee. I hope your admin nipped that sh*t in the bud.