Normally I don’t repost somebody else’s blog post in its entirety, but in this case…

Mrs. Smith bitched to the Principal that little Alfie’s teachers never called when little Alfie wasn’t doing well in their classes.  She didn’t know how she could help little Alfie if she didn’t know what was going on.  The Principal, in the nicest tone ever, spoke to the teachers about how they needed parental support.   He said, “If we don’t contact them and give them the opportunity to intervene then we can’t say they aren’t involved.”  He then added that large case loads are a fact of life and teachers need to deal with them.

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