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...understand (five-year-olds) because you don't have children yourself." Within days of taking on 22 kids - and still trying to memorize names - it seemed to her that some of the parents expected she'd already know the idiosyncrasies of the entire class. "One step outside the classroom and I'd be bombarded," she says. "Always, the focus was on their own child. Morning and afternoon it was, 'How's he or she doing?' The same as six hours ago, I'd feel like saying...
...Some of the most challenging parents come from the ranks of those whose child is brilliant - or who think their child is brilliant. Even moderate giftedness is quite rare. In an average classroom, there might be three children with an IQ over 130; they'll learn more quickly than their peers and need less repetition. (Profoundly gifted children - those with an IQ over 180 - are a 1 in 500,000 to 1 in a million phenomenon.) Yet teachers joke that parents have their own definition of giftedness: 2% of the population - plus their own child...
...meeting her daughter's teacher at the start of each year and regularly thereafter. "I make sure they've got all the literature on her - the IQ test, reports about the syndrome. And I make sure I tell them where she can and can't sit in the classroom. I'm constantly on top of them." Rachael's speech is clipped, abrupt. It's easy to imagine teachers tensing up at the sight of her. And yes, she says, she does expect a lot of them: "I expect them to know the kids. I expect them to know their strengths...
...search for more harmonious teacher-parent relations, interested parties are brimming with ideas. Some parents are less concerned about raw teachers than about older, jaded ones. "Education departments need to give these teachers options to move on and do something outside the classroom," says the P. & C.'s Brownlee. "We're too narrow in our thinking." Some schools issue to parents written guidelines on how to approach teachers, explicitly forbidding bad language and threatening behavior...
...extensive discussions about the pros and cons of leaving the classroom, [but] he doesn’t regret his decision,” says Blinder, who served as Vice-Chairman of the Federal Reserve from...