How do you get parents to respect your boundaries? They email me at 2 am and then follow up with me when I haven't answered by 7 am. Your child's spelling quiz grade is not an emergency and my office hours are not 24/7.

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Don’t answer until you get your school then do NOT begin with “sorry for the delay “ or anything similar.

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Establish your boundaries early on and ignore anything outside of them.

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When you leave school for the day, change your email to Out of Office, will Return 8 am (or whenever you are required to start, NOT when you get there). Every. Day. Parents will get an almost immediate reply, will know that it went to the right email, & believe that you won’t see it until the next work day. You could add: Emails are replied to in at least 48 hours and in the order in which they are received. They will, in theory, be happy when you answer earlier.

It’s like screening your calls for email. If you want to answer administration, colleagues, or whoever you certainly can, but ignore parents.

Also, never answer parent emails while you are teaching, even if you “can” as it sets up unreasonable parental expectations. Exception: reply while teaching BUT set it to send on your prep or after school.

Learn the tricks of your email to use it to your advantage. 👍🏼🙂

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It's hard for them to disrespect your boundaries if you simply don't allow them to. They're emailing you at 2AM? Ignore them until you get to the rest of your emails. Some parents really think the sun shines out of their kids butt and that's simply not the case when you're teaching a classroom of 20+ students. Let them follow up as many times as they want, answer when it's appropriate and if they give you BS either ignore them, or remind them that 2AM is not an appropriate time to communicate on ANY professional level. Period.

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So, our campus has a communication expectation. We are to reply OR acknowledge receipt of the email with a timeline of when we will reply within 1-2 business days of receipt. I would never respond to a parent email sooner than that because it sets up unreal expectations. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Since the is the campus expectation is, it makes it easy to have admin support. There are exceptions for sick kids, minute emergencies, or changes to pickup plans, but that is it!

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I have a couple of questions...
1. What are the communication expectations set by your district or administration?
2. Do you have a Campus family handbook?
3. Do you have a grade level specific "guide to success"?

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