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Nothing at work is more important than my kids’ education. Sorry yours don’t get the benefit of you feeling the same way.
Exactly.
Second OP’s thoughts- kids’ upbringing is my first priority.
OP. You are really involved in your kid's classroom. Don't you have enough of your own work to focus on?
This is a bit short sighted. Being so involved in spite of having work is admirable.
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If “we all care,” why would you denigrate another parent’s involvement?
And what’s given you the impression that I’ve micromanaged anything? My daughter is 6 was virtual for 9 weeks which required a pretty heavy dose of parental guidance. Now she’s back on campus and this came up while talking about her day. I’m not sure how discussing her day equates to micromanaging. Nothing was “managed” and no action was taken. Please explain.
Not that it’s important, but I find your generational “analysis” sorely lacking. I’m a millennial, and my parents were very involved in the sense of being interested and supportive. I’m now in the C-Suite at a public company. The job is literally making decisions. I intended to be invoked and supportive as well, and am sorry if you had the stereotypical latchkey X-er experience.
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This week’s example: My first grader was virtual first term and we pushed her limits. She’s back in class now on the regular program. She’s whip smart. We raced through her homework on fill-in-the-blank “number sentences” so I started up making up new ones, using lettered variables instead of blanks, called them equations, and told her it was 7th grade algebra. She was tickled. We even started doing some basic 2-equation/unknown systems.
In class, she referred to number sentences as “equations” and the teacher told her that was wrong and to call them number sentences. Daughter is a bit shy, doesn’t come across as a know-it-all (and honestly WGAF if she did - the athletic kids get to swagger), and she was hurt. Why couldn’t the teacher say “Yup, that’s one name for them. In this class I’ll call them ‘number sentences’ but you do you and I’ll know what you mean?”
Anyways, just a rant. I don’t understand why teachers (and hers is actually pretty good overall) need to be that way.
We all care about our kids' education. I pay more money than I can afford for my kids to have a private school education. However, I choose not to micromanage their day to day. As a Gen X I find that many intelligent millennials and Gen Z incapable of life decisions due to overly involved parents.