What about the parents? Why all the blame on teachers and how *terrible they are? What do you do with the child who keeps falling further and further behind because their behavior keeps them from learning. Parents miss scheduled conference after scheduled conference. When you do finally meet with them they say we do everything right at home – kid doesn’t ever watch t.v., never plays video games, always reads, goes to bed early… But the kid says he has a t.v. and x-box in his room that he plays every day. Parents lie and deny that there is a problem and the behavior gets worse and worse and worse, yet nothing is done. And, because of the media that’s gone completely wild teachers, administrators and school districts are left with their hands tied. All one can do is separate the child in the classroom. You can’t even take away recess anymore. With the fear of lawsuits and media bashing I’m surprised anyone wants to be a teacher anymore.
Societies going to be paying for the mistakes that this generation of parents is making.
