Posted on 03/05/2005 6:00:24 PM PST by emil
One of the latest issues of Time Magazine has a cover story on 'What Teachers Hate About Parents'. This anti-parent propaganda piece serves as an excellent example on most of today's public school teachers who as the story puts it, dread meeting with parents. The story blames this on vicious angry monsters who are otherwise known as 'parents'.
This story hides the real reason on why most public school teachers hate parents. As I pointed out in my latest columns concentrating on education which you can see in the newsletter archives, public school teachers want to take on the role of parenting by themselves in order to inject their values into student's brains. These values include socialism, anarchism, atheism, anti-Americanism and disrespect towards private property.
The first reason why public schools teachers hold such contempt towards parents of their students is that they feel that they are superior to the parents. They believe that it is their opinions on the education of public school students are the one that count and parents must not dare interfere.
Most public school teachers hate parents for interfering with their instruction of the 'proper values' like anti-Americanism and instead teaching their children faith and a love for their country. If conservative parents find out about liberal indoctrination in their child's classroom, most will come to criticize the teacher and demand that he stop at once. This is directly opposed to the perception of most public school teachers that they are the powers and all of the complaining parents are feeble ordinary citizens who should wait in line for their daily bread.
Finally, most public school teachers do not enjoy admitting that one student is better than others since that would be politically incorrect. To succeed in their task of filtering out political incorrectness caused by those rotten gifted children and show that everyone performs the same, they can not give talented students better grades. This theory is proven if you take a look at the 'Parent Behavior Rules' part of the article which states, "Remember, A students will not suffer from a B grade."
In the world of the educrat (or any other liberal) children are the property of governmet. Parents are the enemy.
You are totally full of it.
Thank you. Now I understand why those parents were so upset when that teacher was taped yelling at the teenagers who wouldn't stand for the Star Spangled Banner.
NOT.
With all due respect, what does an 12 year-old (if he is really 12) know about "most" anything?
How many public school teachers has he spoken with? How many times has he traveled outside of his state?
Sadly, this is unfortunately another example of the decline of the U.S. education system.
bttt
Every teacher I've met would welcome more involvement from parents, but too often kids are raised by dual-income families and the parents just don't have the time to deal with their kids.
And, Emil, never trust anyone over 30!!! ;-)
No, when viewing the big picture, your wife is a rare (and growing rarer) exception in the public school system. And yes, gosh knows there are a ton of pathetic "parents" out there, too. In the big picture, however, the Indoctrinators/Teachers are the more serious problem. Liberals now control the infostructure of this nation, from kindergarten to PhD, and then through the media. It's how 20% of the country have been able to inflict their will on our culture, decimating it as they go.
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I read this article, or a twin in Newsweak. I notice it has no section on how teachers should behave toward parents.
Maybe that will come next week in the companion piece "Why Parents Hate Teachers."
There are a lot of problems with education, but I'll take no part in teacher-bashing. I am married to a teacher and I know a lot of them very well. NONE of them that I know hate parents or think they could do a better job of raising kids than parents do.
I do know that they are frequently frustrated by parents with combative attitudes toward teachers and who think their children can do no wrong, by a society that thinks that a teacher can somehow mysteriously undo the effects of screwed up homes and dangerous neighborhoods, and by parents who don't value education and refuse to to get involved with their kids' learning at home.
Like I said, there are a lot of ideological problems with the educational establishment. My wife refuses to join the NEA. But, the worst problem for education, IMHO, is the culture itself - not educational ideology. Most teacher-bashers have never had the guts themselves to step into a modern classroom themselves. My own chilcren continue to be inspired by several outstanding teachers, and to tolerate several mediocre ones (just like in any other profession). God bless those who conscientiously do their best to educate our children.
ping. Welcome to free republic.
Look around you and at what is happening to this country. They are against GOD, they are teaching the children to accept homosexuality as a "NORMAL" way of life. Have you been reading any of the posting or even the MSM. Please open your eyes and ears! Do you approve of the teachers having sex with their students?? Examples!!???? Why do you even need SPECIFIC Examples"?!!
As a substitute teacher, the woman in question is 100% correct. True, there are too many pointy headed lefities in the system. But the real problem is apathetic parents. I can personally attest to many a teachers frustration in trying to involve parents in disciplining their miscreant only to be met with total unconcern on the part of the parent(s) or even hostility because of course their child does no wrong. Even worse, some minority parents will accuse you of being racist and get the political pull to get you form backing off their miscreant. This of course emboldens the kids and... well figure out the rest
It's hard to discipline kids and keep order in the classroom if you are not backed up on the home front. Most public school teachers don't hate ALL parents. However, they are justified in hating SOME of them.
I live in the Portland, OR 'burbs. And I must say overall the #1 problem with schools is not pay, or class size, but the degree of parent involvement with the schools. In my sons' elementary school there are at least two parent volunteers in each class every day, and the involvement by parents in everything, from the science fair to school fundraisers is unbelievable. Their test scores are off the chart.
Of course in the Portland inner city, the schools with the smallest classroom size and the most dollar per student are failing in No Child Left Behind. The reason? Transitory population. i.e. the parents move around alot/don't care. Though there are some passionate parrents, you need a whole bunch to succeed.
No government program can mitigate a 30 year old woman's indifference to her 14 year old child. I live near Trenton NJ and it's not uncommon to have a grandparent who is in their late forties be named as the guardian of middle school kids because the mother can not handle the responsibility and has run off or is in jail. (To fully appreciate the problem- do the math)
I take it that you think we need to keep our kids at home and brain wash them with conservitive views instead of liberal ones.
And despite this Conservatives continue to gain control of government, of the media, and of society in general.
No, sorry, your arguments just don't hold water. Conservatives continue to turn back the tide of liberalism, just look at the past election and the fact that now the sacred cow of all liberalism, social security, is on the table for destruction.
This wouldn't be possible if we were all robots who have been "indoctrinated" by the liberals. Give your fellow citizens a bit more credit, ok?
Same here - I agree with everything you wrote. I think these folks that spend all their time bashing teachers haven't ever spoken to any of them.
LOL, you must be joking. A slight slowing of our leftward gallop is hardly "turning back the tide of liberalism."
Have you forgotten that GW Bush got more votes than any person in our nation's history?
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