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Saturday, April 27, 2013

A dozen things teachers won’t tell parents (e.g., ‘Kids dish on your secrets all the time’)

A dozen things teachers won’t tell parents (e.g., ‘Kids dish on your secrets all the time’):


A dozen things teachers won’t tell parents (e.g., ‘Kids dish on your secrets all the time’)

http://thesecretsjourney.blogspot.com/2012/09/secrets.html
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Interviews with teachers by Reader’s Digest yielded a list of more than 30 things that teachers think but would not tell their students’ parents. Here are a dozen of them, and you can find the rest here.
1. Kids dish on your secrets all the time — money, religion, politics, even Dad’s vasectomy.
2. Please, no more mugs, frames, or stuffed animals. A gift card to Starbucks or Staples would be more than enough. A thank-you note: even better.
3. I’m not a marriage counselor. At parent-teacher conferences, let’s stick to your child’s progress, not how your husband doesn’t help you around the house.
4. Guys who dribble a ball for a couple of hours a game can make up to $20 million a