@socialstudiestx It’s absolutely ridiculous to think that students can learn from teachers wearing jeans on Friday or after a teacher has paid to wear jeans but think students can’t learn from a teacher wearing jeans on a day they didn’t pay. Some admin are out of control with controlling.
I always taught my APs this- 1st question to a parent calling me or them about a teacher or class incident: “Have you spoken to the teacher about this?” If the answer was no, we’d say, “I’m sending an email to the teacher to have them call you. Please call us back if you have further concerns after talking w/ the teacher.” Only exceptions- accusations of abuse, or serious wrongdoing of the teacher.
When you visit an elementary school that has 45 minutes of social studies scheduled every day for the full year, and they aren’t pretending social studies happens during the ELA block.