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This week sees kids going back-to school.With this is mind I found this an interesting read Class Conflict: Should parents meddle in their kids’ classroom assignments
 

 

Emily Bazelon Slate writes:

The hard truth about meddling is that when parents insist on a particular class assignment for their children, they can end up helping their own kid at the expense of someone else’s. Class assignments are a zero-sum game: If your kid gets the teacher you like and escapes the mediocre or rotten alternative, another kid will be taking his place. For sure, parents talk themselves around this. They say it’s their job to put their own kids’ interests first. Or if they have an older child who has had a run-in with a teacher, they figure the family has already done its time and now deserves a break. Or they talk in code about how a teacher or a combination of classmates is just not the right fit for their child, though they’re sure the setting will do everyone else’s just fine. link to continue reading

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