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Reply to "PSA To Parents Who Launch Complaints Against Teachers"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you need counseling. Your post, no matter the caveats about the intended audience, comes across as smug and paranoid. There are no mobs of parents conspiring to run away teachers that they don't like for illegitimate reasons. You have watched too much TV. Your tirade against parents may be based on good intentions, but the messaging is lost because of the tone. [/quote] I don't work in the school system, but I've seen this happen among parents in a class. It's not common, but with two kids going through K-12, I've seen it happen once full-blown and once in a milder way. (I've also seen plenty of parents work out their issues with teacher in reasonable ways--and have had 2 conversations with teachers myself over the years about issues where I disagreed with a policy/approach). The full-blown mob was "weird" -- it was led by a parent and who enlisted one more and then they tried to regularly whip up drama among parents about an event or policy in this teachers class. In this case, it was a teacher that my eldest had who myself and everyone adored, for the second somehow she was "hated" and there was no perceptible change in teaching that I could discern. But the same parent who whipped up the drama there also caused problems between parents, sued the HOA, had the bus stop moved, had a thing against the librarian. So it seemed ridiculous to me and I sent in messages of support for the teacher. But if you weren't a parent who witnessed this trend or weren't that involved in school, she could be very convincing. She was a lawyer and seemed very competent. The fact is that any job where you work with a diverse public you are going to encounter people with personality disorders, mental health issues, or just generally belligerence-- and because schools work with groups of kids and groups of parents over the long term in a really intensive way --these can intersect with weird group patterns that makes it different than just regular work with client. Your response that this doesn't happen seems really naive to me. Sure, it may not happen to you. But you have 1-4 kids over a certain period of time--you don't see the day in, day out of a school with all its students, teachers, parents etc. [/quote]
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