[Carry_Okie]

The teachers can blame the parents all they want, but those “bad students” were raised by the product of public schools. Those “excellent teachers” are those using methods in which he believes, methods that are certain to fail, as designed. I would bet the farm that he would turn in any parent with the guts to commit “attempted discipline.” I have no sympathy for him.

[Blood of Tyrants]

But you must admit that when a you have a majority of inner city black students in your class, you can just about guarantee that the job of teaching becomes about 500% harder.

[Sans-Culotte]

The teachers can blame the parents all they want, but those “bad students” were raised by the product of public schools. Those “excellent teachers” are those using methods in which he believes, methods that are certain to fail, as designed. I would bet the farm that he would turn in any parent with the guts to commit “attempted discipline.” I have no sympathy for him.

You are making a lot of assumptions about the teacher. Considering the tenor of what he wrote, he does not fit the profile of the NEA/communist types that proliferate in the school systems. How do you know he espouses "methods that are certain to fail"? An ignorant undisciplined kid from a single-family home immersed in a culture that eschews education and civility is likely to be a "bad student" from day one.

[ladyjane]

The teachers can blame the parents all they want

Huh? What are you talking about?

The teacher never blamed the parents. He never even mentioned the parents.