Teachers and parents - "them" v "us"

[MeerkatsUnite]

Hi

Was reading this article in the Daily Telegraph at the weekend and if anyone else has read this I was wondering what you thought:-

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/2005/12/31/edrents31.xml&sSheet=/education/2006/01/19/ixteleft.html

My initial reaction was how on earth did it come to this?.

I don't think this article is particularly well written either.

Small wonder therefore that schools cannot deal with bullying.

there you go

Have read it and think it's a poor written article actually.

You only have to read what the teachers on here post to know that whilst there are lots of things that are annoying there is lots that is not.

I think the journalist took one or two rather specific overreactions and has chosen to make them sound like regular occurrences.

I don't think that there is such a huge divide, because whilst there will be some parents who really get on the wrong side of a teacher (and vice versa) for the majority it isn't that bad.

Yet another example of stirred up division where we ought to be working together to get the best for our kids.

Mars - you would be surprised at how some parents act... and what they expect of you - I have taught secondary school both in Aus and UK and I have met some diabolical parents....

I have also met some fab parents who are working in a successful partnership with parents for the sake of their children.

some of the parents I have worked with can be very demanding, some can be violent and abusive but the vast majority are fab.

Of the demanding ones, many just don't seem to 'get' the jump between primary and secondary any better than their kids. They don't seem to understand that I can't be with their child every minute, making sure that they pick up their sports kit, for example (I have been asked this). They forget that I teach 200 kids a week. So I can't 'organise a new set of books' because darling child has soaked his....darling child will have to see individual teachers, I don't have the time or the inclination to see 8 different members of staff.

But as I say, most are great