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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not condoning what the teacher did, but teachers (and I am not one) have paid the price for parents not parenting their kids during the pandemic.

I have empathy for the teacher, empathy for the teen, but likely very little for the teen's parents/guardians.
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Or maybe you are seeing kids suffering the mental health impacts of the pandemic.  Please stop blaming parents for all ‘bad behavior.’[/quote]

Um, no. It's parents.

As a 6th grade middle school teacher, I see the direct results of lazy parenting each year. ES parents don't make their kids do any homework and are used to being able to strongarm the teachers into good grades. It doesn't work in middle school. I don't give a bunch of homework but when I give it, I expect it to be completed. Even though this is expressed to parents and students in a variety of different ways, after the first midterm grades come out, I always have some students and parents who are dumbfounded at how their kid has a bad grade.

Also, the way kids speak to teachers these days is insane. And why? Because they know there are no consequences.

The pandemic showed the US that 99.9% of parents view teachers as babysitters and nothing more.

This is my last year of teaching and I can't wait to never have to deal with a shitty parent again.  [/quote]

I am not a lazy parent but my child wont be doing elementary school homework. Especially not in K-2nd grade, around age 8 Ill start enforcing. If he wants to do it because its fun so be it but there is no reason he needs to spend 30-45 min doing homework at age 6. None. We can play word games, license plate games while driving for state capitals, cook/bake to work with fractions, read multiple books at night, etc.

It is engagement not homework that matters.

These items aside there is nothing my child could say to a teacher for me to accept that they were struck. Nothing. Teachers are adults. They can control themselves. Children are children and impulsive and testing boundaries and he would be punished at home (a LOT) but physical battery on behalf of the teacher is not acceptable. [/quote]

Are you serious? You need to make sure your child does the required work. You are just what the teachers encounter - LAZY- and clueless.
Yes homework also matters!!![/quote]

No I wont enforce homework in elementary school that has not shown to directly correlate with improved outcomes in areas without deficits. You seem to think that you are the only individuals in charge of children's education but that isn't the case with engaged parents. Teachers are responsible for educating students inside school. Parents are responsible for educating outside of school with items like how to cook, chores and responsibilities, exploring nature (learning about seasons/plants/wildlife), engaging in coordinated and non-coordinated physical activity, playing with friends, riding bikes, swimming, etc. If there are deficits we will address them but I will not enforce 30-min of homework for a 2nd grader when they are in school from 8-3 5 days a week. The rest of the time they can focus on their interests whether it be airplanes, legos, robotics, reading sci-fi. [/quote]

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