Parents are the equivalent of a customer.
My husband has customers that watch his companies every move, and then they threaten to take away the work if it is not done to their expectations even when those customers don’t know the specifics of the hardware.
The customers call him 24 hours a day. He has no personal time except when his cell phone is out of range.
Even on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, he has customers calling him.
Then if the customers are not happy, the boss can fire him at any time. No recourse, no notice, and no pension.
Also, he’s a manager and he gets the wonderful job of firing people, dealing with co-workers who are doing drugs, etc, etc.
Our kids are in private school now, and it is much better in private school. The private schools know that we will take our money and go some place else if we don’t like what is going on. When parents are unhappy, the private school makes changes.
When my kids were in public school, so many of the staff were so disrespectful to me and my husband.
I used to work in a program where my company volunteered me to work in the classroom in a poor neighborhood in San Jose. I spent 20 hours a week in the classroom. I also used to substitute teach.
I respect good teachers, and I know quite a few of them.
However,part of their job is pleasing me: the customer,the texpayer and the parent.
I would be negligent in my job as parent is I took a hands off approach to education, and I know for a fact that my special needs kid would not be where she is today if I had taken a hands off approach.
We see this expression often: “Good” teachers.
Well?...I do have a problem with that. I suppose you and others are referring to teachers who convey some information and the children somehow retain it, but what about morally good?
Since every government owned and run school in this nation is godless, how can a “good” teacher cooperate with that? Children must learn to think and reason godlessly in these government schools if they even minimally cooperative with the curriculum. Do “good” teachers agree to teach children to think godlessly? Would a good teachers undermine the religious worldview taught in the home?
Personally....I don't think a “good” teacher would do that.
And then there is the socialism aspect of government schooling. Often a child's first contact with socialism is their pre-k or kindergarten teachers. How long is it before they learn that government schools use the threat of force to get money from a neighbor to pay for their socialist-funded and tuition free schooling? Well! Gee Whiz! If the voting mob can get government to give the child tuition-free school why not thousands of other free socialist services and goods?
Would “good” teachers agree to support a system of indoctrination that would teach children to be comfortable with socialism or submitting their hearts, minds, reason, and inner thoughts, to the will of the voting mob.