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[quote=Anonymous]Dealing with parents is like dealing with customers in a restaurant. Some treat you with respect, some treat you like garbage. There's been a shift in education over the last decade or so where everything is our fault. I had three students cheat on a test. The first child's parent said that it was my fault. I didn't prepare him enough, so "naturally" he cheated. The second parent said that it was unfair that I talked to his child about plagiarism without first consulting the parents on the best way to broach the subject. I made the child feel guilty. The last parent told me that I talked the test up too much, and the anxiety is what drove the student to cheat. In each of these cases, my principal agreed with the parents that the students should be allowed to retake the test for full credit. They say that people don't leave jobs, they leave bosses. If I leave teaching, it will be because of the parents, not the students. [/quote]
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