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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 454470" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>In your situation? I would have some really strenuous objections. It should not be difficult to get in touch with ANY of your child's teachers. Cell phones mean that most schools expect to speak to a parent within 15-30 minutes and often by the time 15 min has passed they have moved on to the emergency contact. This is not just our district - it is common in the districts all over the country that I have friends in. If parents are supposed to be that reachable, school staff should at least be reachable within a day. If the aide was good with my kid and my kid was learning things he needed to learn, I would have few problems with an aide being the one who taught him. But if it was just babysitting, well, I would be FURIOUS.</p><p></p><p>I would object to a teacher being paid that much and not doing things iwth any of the kids. I do think many schools cover things up so that parents do not demand more/better/different from them. This doesn't just come from experience as a student and parent. I saw a LOT of this in the schools my father taught in. Including one principal who bought a copier worth over $50,000 and kept it locked in his office - the teachers were not allowed to even SEE it and were each given 1 ream of paper to last the entire year for ALL of their classes. Not 1 ream per period, but 1 ream per teacher per year. The copier the teachers had to use did not even turn on. My dad had one of the old mimeograph machines and he and his students turned that hand crank to make the purple inked copies that many ofyou may remember from when you were in school. </p><p></p><p>I also know that at the middle school in my town about 20% of the teachers there chose to homeschool their kids for the middle school years. Largely because the way things were handled. No supervision in the hallways between classes, lunch supervision was the principal sitting on the stage in the cafetorium with a microphone as he flirted iwth a teacher or other employee and ignored the students as they threw things, etc.... The substitute teachers in our district will not even send their kids to the elementary school that is right next to the middle school because similar things go on there, even though it is in the ritzy part of town and supposedly has the "best quality" students because it has more students from well off families than other elem schools in the district do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 454470, member: 1233"] In your situation? I would have some really strenuous objections. It should not be difficult to get in touch with ANY of your child's teachers. Cell phones mean that most schools expect to speak to a parent within 15-30 minutes and often by the time 15 min has passed they have moved on to the emergency contact. This is not just our district - it is common in the districts all over the country that I have friends in. If parents are supposed to be that reachable, school staff should at least be reachable within a day. If the aide was good with my kid and my kid was learning things he needed to learn, I would have few problems with an aide being the one who taught him. But if it was just babysitting, well, I would be FURIOUS. I would object to a teacher being paid that much and not doing things iwth any of the kids. I do think many schools cover things up so that parents do not demand more/better/different from them. This doesn't just come from experience as a student and parent. I saw a LOT of this in the schools my father taught in. Including one principal who bought a copier worth over $50,000 and kept it locked in his office - the teachers were not allowed to even SEE it and were each given 1 ream of paper to last the entire year for ALL of their classes. Not 1 ream per period, but 1 ream per teacher per year. The copier the teachers had to use did not even turn on. My dad had one of the old mimeograph machines and he and his students turned that hand crank to make the purple inked copies that many ofyou may remember from when you were in school. I also know that at the middle school in my town about 20% of the teachers there chose to homeschool their kids for the middle school years. Largely because the way things were handled. No supervision in the hallways between classes, lunch supervision was the principal sitting on the stage in the cafetorium with a microphone as he flirted iwth a teacher or other employee and ignored the students as they threw things, etc.... The substitute teachers in our district will not even send their kids to the elementary school that is right next to the middle school because similar things go on there, even though it is in the ritzy part of town and supposedly has the "best quality" students because it has more students from well off families than other elem schools in the district do. [/QUOTE]
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