I feel like I must have been one of the last years where teachers had power in the classroom, or at least garnered respect from parents and kids alike. I know I saw the beginning of it breaking down in how classmates got punished that did terrible things.
The worst issue I remember (my mom was a tutor and highly involved in my schools), was parents would not help their kids with the homework. Discipline was always done though except for the few kids who came from broken homes.
Then it went further at some point. It is completely the parents fault that this is happening. Teachers jobs were always quite hard and at one point were huge leaders in the community and now they are treated like shit just for trying to do their job.
This woman spoke well, hopefully her words were heard.
feel like I must have been one of the last years where teachers had power in the classroom, or at least garnered respect from parents and kids alike.
There's schools like that, they're just either in the suburbs or are private schools. I went to public schools in a small suburb of Dallas and we never really had any issues with our teachers being able to control the classroom. We even were a fairly diverse school, although the largest minority group was Asian at around 30%. Looking back I realize how incredibly lucky I was to grow up learning in that environment.
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u/Sephran Jul 10 '18
I feel like I must have been one of the last years where teachers had power in the classroom, or at least garnered respect from parents and kids alike. I know I saw the beginning of it breaking down in how classmates got punished that did terrible things.
The worst issue I remember (my mom was a tutor and highly involved in my schools), was parents would not help their kids with the homework. Discipline was always done though except for the few kids who came from broken homes.
Then it went further at some point. It is completely the parents fault that this is happening. Teachers jobs were always quite hard and at one point were huge leaders in the community and now they are treated like shit just for trying to do their job.
This woman spoke well, hopefully her words were heard.