My girlfriend is a teacher but I know I wouldn’t have the patience around kids to be a good teacher like her.. Its depressing how most of the teachers there treat the children, like they are some sort of burden to be kept in line. A lot of her colleagues have limited knowledge of their own subject and no concept of developmental psychology and no way/desire to relate to the children on a personal level.
The kids rebel because they can sense they are being treated like trash, but she’s gotten some good results out of some of the students other teachers had long given up on. A kid gets labeled as a trouble maker or an idiot and that label will follow them from teacher to teacher, grade to grade, unless someone decides to give them a chance.
The vast majority of teachers AND the vast majority of parents seem to be equally guilty in this fiasco, but neither side wants to take up any sort of responsibility. Its a pretty vicious cycle.
I always thought the teachers' job was to teach and the parents job is to make their kids feel valued. Not sure why you think the teachers should relate to kids here...
A lady who kept telling everyone over and over that she was a teacher kept telling me how she had no plans on having children and neither did many of her colleagues. She spoke about how many people should never have children (in very vulgar terms). She did not have one positive thing to say about children. I really had to bit my tongue to say, "You've made me glad that I homeschool. I don't want the chance that my children might end up with a teacher like you."
There are good teachers, but finding them seems like a crap shoot.
Guilty as charged. I believe that I earned my high school diploma in spite of my k-12 public school teachers, aka insecure control freaks. College was a different story, thank God.
Right out of the NEA handbook, you have no clue about a classroom.