This writer is an idiot. My wife is a public school teacher, she doesn't hate parents, but she does have an awful lot of kids who don't get much in the way of parenting at home, and are unresponsive to requests by teachers to get involved in their kids education.
Please note the word 'most'. I understand that there are quite a few public school teachers who do not fit the description of my post.
Please look at this posters home page.
The article was careful to say "most", and he(?) most certainly did not say anything about your wife.
Most has never meant "all".
"she does have an awful lot of kids who don't get much in the way of parenting at home, and are unresponsive to requests by teachers to get involved in their kids education."
Sadly, that is the way of the world. Due in large part to our divorce rate, I'd bet. There are many excellent teachers out there- I have a few- and I commend you for your service to this country. Thanks a lot!
ps- how do i italicize quotes? thx.
I would tend to give him the benefit of the doubt, as I was once a pupil in the Boston Public School system myself.
Bad teachers cannot ruin children without the help of bad parents, and vice versa.
That is what Mrs. Satan REALLY meant when she said "It takes a Village".
Both are true. Some parents aren't good parents. Some teachers aren't good teachers. I've always gotten the impression from teachers that they believe involved parents are troublesome. The more self-confident teachers don't project that belief. And forget about principals.
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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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.
The writer is NOT an idiot, and I have many years of raising 7 children and dealing with idiotic educrats to support his contentions. Bully for you that the wife is a teacher..and she may be a good one; an exception to the rule.
Don't EVEN try to tell me on this forum that this s**t doesn't take place in every school in America. It does.