My bestie is a teacher and has said it has gotten significantly worse recently especially since covid. She said both childrens and parents behaviour has deteriorated and verbal and physical abuse isn’t uncommon.
She says parents often back their child no matter what (even if there is cctv evidence for example) and come into the school all guns blazing while fing and blinding because they don’t think their darling child has done anything wrong. You often see posts on here about parents who feel their kid is “special” and the rules shouldn’t apply to them or don’t feel they should follow them because they don’t agree with them.
I seriously worry about what will happen to these children when they grow up and realise the world doesn’t revolve around them or struggle with real anxiety issues for example because they have no resilience and aren’t used to being told no or failure. If something goes wrong the parent swoops in and contacts the school instead of trying to support their child to work it out for themselves and develop coping strategies.
Be cause of this “entitlement” and reduction for some kids in social skills (potentially due to covid) children act out, behave badly and make it very hard to teach.
I know a head of school who spends most of his time dealing with the police, social services, mental health and parents. And by parents I mean fing and blinding, physical assault, threats to ofsted, threats to police and aggressive behaviour - this in a nice town and area.
I can only imagine what it would be like to get 30 emails from parents every day because of this and have to deal with these issues. Not to mention the increase in mental health issues and the lack of support for kids.
Overall I see a lack of taking a step back and considering impact on others and the teacher/school.
But hey that’s just how I feel…