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[quote=Anonymous]I have recently noticed that being a mean teacher seems to be an acceptable practice. I went to Catholic school as a young child. Lots of mean teachers and nobody said anything. Then parents in my generation got very sensitive and objected to everything.  I feel like now we don't know what to do.

We don't want to be like our parents and tell our kids to suck it up but we don't want to be THAT parent who objects to everything.

We had a great experience at our school last year. Yes the teacher yelled. Yes this was upsetting to my child (even though he wasn't really getting yelled at). He loved his teacher though. He learned a lot. We as parents stayed out of it. No teacher is perfect and this teacher had way too many positive qualities for us to stick our noses in.

HOWEVER - this year my son's teacher has been out more than she has been there. She is not keeping up with what the other teachers in the grade are doing. She seems to have favorite students. If those kids complain, the others are punished even if she hasn't seen anything happen.

This is not an easy job. However, teachers have a responsibility to be professional. If we say customer service reps are bad at their job when they are rude, why do we accept if from teachers? There is more to their job than hugs and smiles but with young kids, being obnoxious turns them off of learning completely.

Teachers need to stop thinking they can do no wrong and parents need to stop thinking teachers can do no right.

Nothing excuses a teacher who is mean to a child. To the person who said it is the parent and child's fault if they have had more than one bad teacher ---  It's possible to get more than one mean teacher. How is it the parent's fault? Well if you insist on placing blame, then the parent trusted the school too much and should have insisted on their child being placed with a certain teacher.

I will no longer just take what we get. A bad teacher means a lost school year. While my child is young, I will research who the good teachers are for the next year and make it clear that if my child gets the "bad" teacher, the Principal is going to have to deal with me a lot.

This phases out as kids get older. Don't tell me 5,6, 7 year old kids should just suck it up. I'm not buying that at all!
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