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[quote=Anonymous]I think the biggest change is that there used to be consequences, and the parents used to be supportive of teachers rather than antagonistic.

It seems like nowadays, when kids have very disruptive behavior, they end up getting a slap on the wrist from the principal, or their parents shop for an IEP.  Neither schools nor parents punish for poor behavior.  Likewise, when kids didn't do assignments or study for tests, and then did poorly, they got bad grades.  They didn't get retakes or B+/A- grades for poor work.  Parents weren't going to swoop in and rescue kids from their bad decisions or poor work ethic.

My mom taught from around 1970 - 2010.  In the earlier stages of her career, she could give out failing grades, and the parents were more mad at their kids for not doing their homework than they were at my mom.  Toward the end, the failing kids got B- grades due to grade inflation, and the parents would yell at my mom that their kid, who didn't turn in any homework or study for any of the tests, still deserved an A.  
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