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...cutting is becoming an increasingly democratized disorder. By some estimates, up to 30% of self-mutilators are boys, and many cutters of both sexes come from apparently stable, two-parent homes in which there is no evidence of abuse. Some of the kids have a history of suicide attempts, but many have no interest in ending their lives, no matter how self-destructive their behavior seems to be. How often they injure themselves generally depends on how acute the underlying psychological pain is. In one study, kids self-mutilated anywhere from once to 745 times a year. "They...
...School, in Sydney's south, has a cozy feel. There are covered walkways throughout. Lots of grass and trees. And many of the classrooms are new and bright. But it's also a typical Australian school in at least one way: staff are fed up with some of the parents. Last term, for instance, an infants teacher on car park duty recorded the details of a father who'd stopped in a no-parking zone. The dad charged at him with a raised fist, letting fly with language that kids would never find in their home readers. There was also...
...better relations, most teachers would argue, resides with parents, who may need to accept that their child isn't gifted, or that there are 27 other children in their darling's class, or that there aren't 45 spots on the school netball team. But teachers won't be surprised to hear that, outside of staff rooms, there seems to be little sympathy for them. A prevalent view is that central to teaching is handling - patiently and professionally - the expectations and anxieties of even the most objectionable parents. "If you can't or won't do that," says Sharryn Brownlee...
...Perhaps the saddest part of teacher? parent breakdown - and possibly a cause of it - is that teachers start out with stars in their eyes. "Time and again," write Sydney University's Ewing and Jackie Manuel, "beginning teachers frame their expectations and their vision of teaching in ways that are redolent of the archetypal odysseys of classical mythology." Perhaps it's just too many viewings of Dead Poets Society, but many student teachers envisage altering the course of young lives: winning over the shy child with empathy and enthusiasm; spotting and nurturing genius in the most unlikely pupils; instilling a love...
...Teachers know all this, but . . . "For too many parents, dolling up and then rolling up in their SUV is a big part of their life," says a Melbourne Year 6 teacher. "School is where they show off." A primary school in Sydney's south has asked its cleaners to pay special attention to the windows of the kindergarten rooms - on the outside they're usually smeared with parents' hand (and nose) prints. In return for their help - and sometimes high fees - some parents want power. Ascham, an exclusive private girls' school in Sydney's east, endured a public row earlier...