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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Sorry Daradon, not trying to cherry pick, but is this true? Are teachers faced with more terrible parents? I would be interested in hearing from some of the teachers on this board on that point. I would be interested to know if their experience with parents has changed over the years.
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Erm, that's not exactly what I meant, that it was getting worse, guess I wrote it a bit funny, I can see how it would look like I meant that.
Absolutely parenting is probably getting better (slowly) as we age as a society. However, the way parents deal with teachers is completely different cause our society is different in that regard. It used to be the parents believed the teachers whenever the kid did something wrong. Billy got the strap? He probably deserved it! Of course, I'm not defending that system, that was ripe for abuse, and corporal punishment is bad.
Now however, teachers are near powerless to punish bad behavior and the few things they can do (take out of extra curricular activities, give a bad grade) often gets parents in an uproar. On top of that, you get parents who think they know better than the teachers, or feel they can do their job and there is little to no respect, and no help for the teacher in teaching their own child.
Don't even get me started on parents who want to challenge the curriculum. Luckily that's not as huge a problem here as it is in the States, but it still exists.