Man i am sure I will get some shit from this but... Here we go.
I am a teacher, I am in "class rooms" all day. I teach and am in classrooms of everything from Gen Ed students to Special Ed students. Now, let me be very clear here; there are a ton of cunts at my work that will undoubtedly spread some racist anti white bullshit, and fuck them.
HOWEVER in defense of the statement "parents leave us alone" I can tell you from multiple first hand accounts there is a good reason for it. That being the following:
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I have seen a parent interrupt a teacher to correct them (and the parent was wrong) in front of 30+ students.
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I have seen parents think they were slick and gave answers to their kids during a test.
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I had a parent have a business meeting less than 10 feet away from the kid, we heard everything. I am pretty sure they violated company policy with the shit they said effectively "in public".
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i had a parent interrupt our class by barging into a students room scolding them for not doing their chores.
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I have had a parent use my 90 minutes of teaching to try and have a parent / teacher conference with a teacher in the middle of a lesson, ironically violating FERPA protections in the process.
The point is; many parents have the mind set of 'my house, my rules' and do not understand that these kids arent on their computers playing games or watching youtube and frankly the parents do not respect teachers enough to even consider they are effectively walking into a classroom a d shouting. Something they would yell at their kids for doing to them if they were in a business meeting on the phone. BuT iTs dIfFeReNt! ThIs iS mY hOuSE, I PaYeD fOr iT, I cAN dO wHaT I wAnT!
It is very difficult to teach over 120 students with 200 parents lurking around interrupting, interjecting, cheating, talking on the phone behind the student, etc. It disrupts me, my teachers, and the other 29 students.
Hopefully that can give people a perspective to understand that we, just as much as the students, want to just buckle down and get through this crap. That is why we ask the parents respect our boundaries and let us do our jobs.
Bring on the downvotes. I try my best to stay politically neutral in my job because it is the ethically correct thing to do.
Edit: The down votes are from people who have never been interrupted in the middle of a business meeting, to which their opinion would immediately flip lol.
Man i am sure I will get some shit from this but... Here we go.
I am a teacher, I am in "class rooms" all day. I teach and am in classrooms of everything from Gen Ed students to Special Ed students. Now, let me be very clear here; there are a ton of cunts at my work that will undoubtedly spread some racist anti white bullshit, and fuck them.
HOWEVER in defense of the statement "parents leave us alone" I can tell you from multiple first hand accounts there is a good reason for it. That being the following:
-
I have seen a parent interrupt a teacher to correct them (and the parent was wrong) in front of 30+ students.
-
I have seen parents think they were slick and gave answers to their kids during a test.
-
I had a parent have a business meeting less than 10 feet away from the kid, we heard everything. I am pretty sure they violated company policy with the shit they said effectively "in public".
-
i had a parent interrupt our class by barging into a students room scolding them for not doing their chores.
-
I have had a parent use my 90 minutes of teaching to try and have a parent / teacher conference with a teacher in the middle of a lesson, ironically violating FERPA protections in the process.
The point is; many parents have the mind set of 'my house, my rules' and do not understand that these kids arent on their computers playing games or watching youtube and frankly the parents do not respect teachers enough to even consider they are effectively walking into a classroom a d shouting. Something they would yell at their kids for doing to them if they were in a business meeting on the phone. BuT iTs dIfFeReNt! ThIs iS mY hOuSE, I PaYeD fOr iT, I cAN dO wHaT I wAnT!
It is very difficult to teach over 120 students with 200 parents lurking around interrupting, interjecting, cheating, talking on the phone behind the student, etc. It disrupts me, my teachers, and the other 29 students.
Hopefully that can give people a perspective to understand that we, just as much as the students, want to just buckle down and get through this crap. That is why we ask the parents respect our boundaries and let us do our jobs.
Bring on the downvotes. I try my best to stay politically neutral in my job because it is the ethically correct thing to do.
Man i am sure I will get some shit from this but... Here we go.
I am a teacher, I am in "class rooms" all day. I teach and am in classrooms of everything from Gen Ed students to Special Ed students. Now, let me be very clear here; there are a ton of cunts at my work that will undoubtedly spread some racist anti white bullshit, and fuck them.
HOWEVER in defense of the statement "parents leave us alone" I can tell you from multiple first hand accounts there is a good reason for it. That being the following:
-
I have seen a parent interrupt a teacher to correct them (and the parent was wrong) in front of 30+ students.
-
I have seen parents think they were slick and gave answers to their kids during a test.
-
I had a parent have a business meeting less than 10 feet away from the kid, we heard everything. I am pretty sure they violated company policy with the shit they said effectively "in public".
-
i had a parent interrupt our class by barging into a students room scolding them for not doing their chores.
-
I have had a parent use my 90 minutes of teaching to try and have a parent / teacher conference with a teacher in the middle of a lesson, ironically violating FERPA protections in the process.
It is very difficult to teach over 120 students with 200 parents lurking around interrupting, interjecting, cheating, talking on the phone behind the student, etc. It disrupts me, my teachers, and the other 29 students.
Hopefully that can give people a perspective to understand that we, just as much as the students, want to just buckle down and get through this crap. That is why we ask the parents respect our boundaries and let us do our jobs.
Bring on the down votes. I try my best to stay politically neutral in my job because it is the ethically correct thing to do.