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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a question for OP. Do you think this culture of teachers bashing "parents" online is helpful? Do you think it changes behavior? Do you think it inspires sympathy for people in your profession? Do you think it makes you look good?[/quote]

DP here, but also a teacher.

For every one post where a teacher is “bashing” a parent, there are easily 20 in which posters are tearing apart teachers.

And what often passes for “bashing” is a comment regarding what may/may not be happening at home. And as a teacher, I can tell you we often hear what happens at home. Out of the mouth of babes… [/quote]

There are more parents than teachers and only a tiny minority of either group posts on DCUM and a tiny minority of them bashes the other group as a group. Using the other group as an excuse for talking sh&t about all teachers or parents is a.lame excuse and just makes you look worse.

As for what you hear from kids, if you are attributing that to "parents" as a group, that is going to piss people off and not going engender much sympathy. Because it's a dumb a petty thing to do.[/quote]

Your first paragraph makes little sense, so I can’t comment on it much. But you do realize teachers are also parents, correct? And that our children also have teachers? We are just able to see situations from multiple angles because we experience them from multiple angles.

As for what we hear, it’s simple fact. You may not like that, but it is. We are often considerably gracious and understanding toward parents, too. When a student says something to us, we are able to remember the source. Do you do the same when your child says something about their teacher? [b]Because according to all the evidence on this site, teachers become the enemy pretty quickly.[/b] [/quote]

You could make the same statement but change "teachers" to "parents". If I were to take what I see on DCUM at face value I'd get the impression teachers have a culture of blaming parents for all the problems they see in schools. When your colleagues constantly echo your opinions they start to feel like facts.

I have an enormous amount of respect for my kid's teachers and fully recognize I could not do that job and if I tried, I would be terrible at it. My kid has some special needs and I have been blown away by how they have just known intuitively how to support her. I feel extremely lucky to be in a school district that is able to attract and retain these experienced professionals. From what I can tell, most of my friends feel the same. However, there are systemic issues in the schools that we cannot control and can be extremely frustrating. And there is a total lack of acknowledgement of the stress that most parents are under these days, something that is a known public health problem.

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Teachers also don't control the systemic issues inside of schools. Go complain to the Board of Education!!

There is a total lack of acknowledgement of the stress that most teachers (also many that are teachers AND parents too) are under these days. 
And the fact that we are severely underpaid. [/quote]

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