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...teacher, how do you cope with such conflicts in your own classroom...
...TAUGHT HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH FOR 34 years and can strongly identify with your article "Parents Behaving Badly" [Feb. 21]. It is so refreshing to read something from the teacher's point of view for a change. Most articles note the flaws in the education profession but seldom discuss, let alone blame, parents for any part in the problem. I am pleased that most of the parents I was actually able to reach were cooperative. I did, however, occasionally encounter a mom or dad who displayed a less than realistic view of the adolescent angel taking up space (and often little...
...TRIVIALIZE PARENTS' CONCERNS about their children's education by referring to them as "mama grizzly bears" and "monster parents" reveals a bias against parental involvement in schools. Educators need to understand that the days of viewing the teacher as "the expert in education" are over. If a parent's advocacy of a student or school program looks like adversity to a teacher, perhaps it is because the teacher is squirming under the just weight of accountability...
...have taught for seven years. I love kids. However, some parents have made my life so unbearable that I'm considering a career change. Don't get me wrong --there are plenty of parents who appreciate our commitment. But there are a few every year who make a teacher cringe. Maybe your article will open the eyes of those who need it the most before all the good teachers...
...stoop down to ask one of the young girls her name and age. She looks about 7 or 8 but is actually 12, stunted from years of undernutrition. When I ask her what her dreams are for her own life, she says that she wants to be a teacher and that she is prepared to study and work hard to achieve that. I know that her chances of surviving to go on to secondary school and a teachers college are slim under the circumstances...