Parents are a big part of this problem. Teachers report behaviors and give recommendations, the parents then deny it happens, or refuse to follow a regimen with their child.
A good admin helps, but most try to smooth it over with the parents so the bullshit continue s.
My kids are (and were–one quit already) teachers. They had younger grades say grade 3-5 and kids are searching porn, telling them to go fuck themselves, stealing their belongings.
Their whole “teaching” time is managing classroom behaviours.
Parents called in to talk about the kid, has had parents verbally abuse the teacher and being spit on by the dad. Police had to come.
Even at the grade 1-3 level they had parents sending chat messages the whole time to some kids…so obviously the kid won’t put their phone away when asked.
And then there are the entitled parents. One kid has challenges (parents claim autism, teachers just say its lack of any structure at home) so kid gets to free roam the class when overwhelmed, while everyone works. Parents then come in to complain that their child feels isolated when freeroaming the classroom and asked the teacher to allow free roam for all students so their kid doesn’t feel bad. Wtf.
Just a complete mess of disrespect and unwillingness to focus on working. Parents don’t reinforce work habits either. Its a bumpy ride
Hell yes. As a former educator myself, I resonated deeply with all of the bullshit. Teachers can be the most proper and correct role models for students doing everything perfectly and going above and beyond, but it don’t mean shit if parents don’t also support the student/child in correcting their misbehavior.
And don’t even get me started on the trend of accommodations and how they were both overused and yet poorly understood by students/parents.
I feel like COVID did a number on the socialization of kids that’s going to be studied for generations. It is likely made worse by parents who couldn’t/didn’t spend time to address this.
Parents are a big part of this problem. Teachers report behaviors and give recommendations, the parents then deny it happens, or refuse to follow a regimen with their child.
A good admin helps, but most try to smooth it over with the parents so the bullshit continue s.
My kids are (and were–one quit already) teachers. They had younger grades say grade 3-5 and kids are searching porn, telling them to go fuck themselves, stealing their belongings.
Their whole “teaching” time is managing classroom behaviours. Parents called in to talk about the kid, has had parents verbally abuse the teacher and being spit on by the dad. Police had to come.
Even at the grade 1-3 level they had parents sending chat messages the whole time to some kids…so obviously the kid won’t put their phone away when asked.
And then there are the entitled parents. One kid has challenges (parents claim autism, teachers just say its lack of any structure at home) so kid gets to free roam the class when overwhelmed, while everyone works. Parents then come in to complain that their child feels isolated when freeroaming the classroom and asked the teacher to allow free roam for all students so their kid doesn’t feel bad. Wtf.
Just a complete mess of disrespect and unwillingness to focus on working. Parents don’t reinforce work habits either. Its a bumpy ride
Hell yes. As a former educator myself, I resonated deeply with all of the bullshit. Teachers can be the most proper and correct role models for students doing everything perfectly and going above and beyond, but it don’t mean shit if parents don’t also support the student/child in correcting their misbehavior.
And don’t even get me started on the trend of accommodations and how they were both overused and yet poorly understood by students/parents.
I feel like COVID did a number on the socialization of kids that’s going to be studied for generations. It is likely made worse by parents who couldn’t/didn’t spend time to address this.