Originally Posted by
davidI
Then you're one of the good ones. My family is filled with teachers, most of whom who have left the profession or retired. Parents caused them insane amounts of grief because they think their kid is gifted or special or that the kid is not performing because the "teacher doesn't know how to teach".
Apparently Engineers are the worst... they seem to think their iron ring also qualifies as a 5-year teaching degrees.
BUT, to the parents' defense, there's not very good communication between schools and parents - this law aims to resolve some of that but what teachers really need is more prep time during the year.
Shrug. What kind of communication are you looking for? Specific feedback on the kids - individually?
Not going to happen other than reporting period, or they are having major challenges.
It’s impossible to give that much feedback to the parents with 25-30 kids in the classes. My kids school does very good at keeping the communication rolling, the general not personalized goings on weekly.
Managing a team at work of 10 is crazy enough for constant feedback. I can’t imagine trying to do that with 30 kids - expectations need to be managed from the parents.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft