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In short - if we do not hear from parents - we do not hear much.

Yep. A core piece of my academic support program is developing self-advocacy, which we also preach to parents.

Btw, what you described about School Board oversight is precisely what is wrong with our schools: schools should be accountable to students and parents and not school systems, states, standards, etc.

The client relationship is backwards. It should be teacher <--> student, school<--> parent, but it's not. Instead, it's teacher <--> administration <--> teacher union <--> school system <--> county/ state rules & oversight <--> national standards, etc.

I could give you a thousand examples of how this plays out in the classroom, from curriculum to technology to rules and grades, and so on.