Pleasing Parents: Part of the Job
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Dear Julia, I enjoy presenting both art and Spanish I lessons to my middle school students (grades 6, 7 and 8) and have done so successfully and almost uneventfully for the past nine years at my current public K-8 school. I was told recently by my administrator that she had received three phone calls from parents who were upset that their ...
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