What teachers really want to tell parents.

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

Oh - so because teachers are, on the whole, so lazy as to generally avoid such work, they should be given the benefit of the doubt in those rare occasions when the behavior catalyzes the teacher's actions, forcing them over the hump and making them actually perform the "major pain" you described?

See where we're going here? You're basically doing the same thing you accuse parents of doing, just in favor of the profession, rather than a child.

Oh, yes, that's exactly what I meant. Thank you for clarifying. Here I was thinking it was liable to be misinterpreted as pointing out that teacher's don't call meetings just to amuse themselves and to fill up all that spare time they have since they only work from 8 - 3, but you've summed it up nicely.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Oh, yes, that's exactly what I meant. Thank you for clarifying. Here I was thinking it was liable to be misinterpreted as pointing out that teacher's don't call meetings just to amuse themselves and to fill up all that spare time they have since they only work from 8 - 3, but you've summed it up nicely.

Nobody claimed teachers call meetings to amuse themselves - you're fighting strawmen like they're on top of a hill at Normandy.

Think about what you've said, though:

1 - Parents who think Little Johnny is perfect, or close to it, are wildly overrating their child and make it difficult to get anything done.

2 - Teachers should be considered 99% (or more!) accurate (meaning perfect, or close to it) with their observations and analysis of child behavior, because after all, who wants to hold meetings?

Oh.

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

Nobody claimed teachers call meetings to amuse themselves - you're fighting strawmen like they're on top of a hill at Normandy.

Think about what you've said, though:

1 - Parents who think Little Johnny is perfect, or close to it, are wildly overrating their child and make it difficult to get anything done.

2 - Teachers should be considered 99% (or more!) accurate (meaning perfect, or close to it) with their observations and analysis of child behavior, because after all, who wants to hold meetings?

Oh.

IRONY. It was irony. Perhaps hyperbole. Jeez.

1. - No. Parents who will not entertain the idea that their children are in need of help - be it behavior or scholastic - make it impossible for teachers to work with them to help their children.

2. - NO - I never said they were perfect in any way; I did say that they are not going to randomly call meetings without having some basis for doing so. If you want to argue that teachers -whatever percentage you wish - are in fact calling meetings with no basis, I'd like to know what you are basing that assumption on - your experience? A Study? What? Or are you arguing that teachers can't identify a child who is struggling scholastically or a behavior problem?