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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Professional Educators don't think of their students or their parents as crazy. No my teacher friend, they think of them as people with whom they work and interact as part of their profession. Apparently you believe anyone who may be outside of your cozy little clique is crazy.[/quote]

No.  You are incorrect.  We do think some of our students and ESPECIALLY our parents are crazy.  Crazy as in 100% certifiable.  Most teachers could write a book about all the crazy they deal with every day.

Actually, your posts provide pretty good insight into the mind of a crazy parent.  Where do you think all the messed up kids come from?  The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, unfortunately.
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Actually, OP, I think the pp meant to say that "good" teachers don't think of their students or their parents as crazy. Only insecure and incompetent ones would even presume to have such a mindset. Which one are you?[/quote]

Do you acknowledge that there are actually unstable people in this world?  And maybe some truly not nice people as well?  And some of those people have kids.  Kids who go to school.  A good teacher cares about what is going on with a student outside of school.  That means sometimes acknowledging that if a parent is acting unstable/abusive/aggressive/incredibly entitled towards folks at the school then the student is probably dealing with some pretty intense drama at home too.  Putting total blinders on is not being a "good" teacher.  A professional isn't going to call a parent crazy to their face or post a parent's name alongside an inappropriate note to the teacher on reddit or something, but they will absolutely *think* "crazy" about a person who is acting, well, crazy.  That's part of being a human being and not a robot.  If you want educators to never have opinions or feelings about interpersonal interactions with parents, then you're going to have to create an educational system that doesn't involve interpersonal interaction.

BTW, I'm not sure altruism means what you think it does.  At any rate, bringing it into a rant about teachers viewing certain parental behavior as crazy is a non-sequitur since altruism is about selfless acts, not about the actor having no feelings/opinions about others.  
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