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The hands of teachers are not tied. They should do what other professionals do. Refuse the job and/or quit.
Other professionals do not let bureaucrats or parents tell them how to do their job.
If the parents and/or bureaucrats are not allowing teachers to apply discipline that works, then the teacher should quit the job!
In my previous post, I plainly stated that perfection did NOT exist in other professions. However, we do not see armies of professionals plainly, openly, and blatantly hurting their clients. Teachers, on the other hand, day after day, **allow**,**permit**, and ** willing acquiesce to** demands from bureaucrats and parents.
I disagree with what you say in your second sentence. In fact, bureaucrats tell a lot of people how to do their job - think of all the doctors wrestling with government programs and insurance stuff (not to mention the malpractice insurance); and think of the bureaucrats that tell people how to keep records lest they be audited.
As for your advice for teachers to quit, you are pretty silly really. Maybe about 30 years ago when a lot of this nonsense started, if some teachers had really stood up to it, it might have worked, but now the scales are tipped against them. They can quit and then someone will just come and take their place and be happy to tow the line. I’d rather have the good ones be on the front lines and trying to do their best, IN SPITE of what they are up against.
Your posts make me inclined to think you are not a fighter but a quitter and one who gives up.