Does anyone appreciate teachers anymore?

Question

I need just a few parents to back me up as a professional, knowledgable adult dedicated to their children. Don't parents understand that it is normal for kids to lie...remember...we did it too. Really mom and dad, they had a full week to do that lengthy assignment...don't believe them when they say such silly things as the teacher never told us it was due. AND I not only discussed the directions, they were supposed to copy them from the board too. No, I'm not picking on Jimmy, I actually have important, productive things to do and I like kids or I wouldn't have spent 6 years in college and tens of thousands of dollars to pick on a 12 year old.

Parents, when you get on our side instead of on our backs, together we can do more to help you child.

God bless you Fancyname. I have 137 students at two different grade levels. Beside creating 14 new lessons every week to go along with our new text, finding new activities, grading papers, sending progress and supplementary reports, and all our many other duties...parent conferences, staff development, faculty meetings, chaperoning, keep up your school webpage, provide before school study groups, professional develpoment after school, shall I go on? How do you manage to fit more in? I have a heck of a time scheduling anything else into our busy days. I get to school at 7:30 and often don't leave 'till 4:30. It isn't unheard of to work through lunch either. Without summer for mental health, what would we do? I'v spent 14 years in another profession and so have some of my coworkers. It is agreed that the general public has no knowledge of the amount of work we do every day.

Answer 1

As a mother of 3(and a day after all 3 of their P-T conferances!!) I absolutely agree with you..
Too many parents out there coddle their 'poor innocent children' and don't even know the first thing about teaching them responsability and discipline..I really think that it is a major problem right now but will really come back to bite us in a few years when they are 'adults'.
My now 10 year old had major problems with late work and 'forgetting assignments last year. The teacher cared enough to call me and both her and I sat down and developed a plan to work this out together..we checked her work leaving school and I checked everything at home. It was time consuming for both of us; I also NEVER blamed the teacher-i made my 10 year old accountable and wanted her to understand that she needed to become responsable. A year later at her 5th grade conferance(last night!) her teacher this year had nothing but good things to say..how she dives into her homework at study time..asks for help and never has late work this year..plus she had almost straight A's..
I think teachers are wonderful and are one of the most under-paid professions out there..
Unfortunately some parents take those things as some sort of personnal insult or don't seem to understand that in a few short years their children will need to enter the adult world.
I hope knowing that a very, involved caring mom(able to admit that my child isn't perfect!)completely agrees with you will help

Answer 2

Ok, I am a parent and a teacher, and yes, I have felt the same way you have. Here is your solution. Write a syllabus with all the work , reading and homework for your quarter, semester or term on it. Send it HOME to be signed. If the child does not return the slip of paper, call home, etc until the parent is aware that they were supposed to see it. Once you have their signature, there is no argument. If a parent has an email get it. Make an email list of parents and send the homework on a weekly basis to the parent. You will never convince a parent who wants to believe their childs cockamamie stories that the kid is wrong, stop wasting your breath. This comes from a teacher who has heard, "My son told me the school discontinued report cards" and another parent ranting that their child could not have skipped school because he picks her up from school every day at 2 30. Unfortunately school ended every day at 3 30. His comment "I thought there were too few kids outside for the end of the day. (our school has over 2000 students) The key is communication with the Parent.

Answer 3

I just wanted to say thanks for the reminder!!! I'm the mother of a 12-year-old, so I can understand where you're coming from. Except I do have a problem with one of my daughter's teachers right now. She is a sensitive child, but it does seem that her science teacher just doesn't like her! I remember as a child having a teacher or two that just didn't seem to like me for some reason! Because she is so sensitive I'm considering moving her to the other science teacher's class. She has had a difficult past two years, for various reasons, and she doesn't need the extra stress. We just moved to a new school district, and she's getting picked on a lot.

Ok I'm rambling here.......but once again thank you for the reminder!!!

Answer 4

I have had the greatest repect for all the teachers my children have so far had. I must confess however that I did not like them all. I appreciate that they all work differently dependant upon the class size learning styles and knowledge levels but I also understand that parents sometimes are very narrow minded and can focus on one incident or takes sides with their kid as a means of feeling somehow connected and on side. Us versus the teacher kind of scenario.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

*applause*

you should make it a point to pass out a weekly syllabus with the due dates for all homework assignments every monday, that will put a damper on their excuses. good luck and thank you for all of your hard work!

Answer 7

no sometimes teachers really dont say things and the really say man i for got to tell you and i think teachers nedd to be more nice there are not a lot of them

Answer 8

ya

Answer 9

i must agree with you on this one