I'm talking about teachers. As you know, I am a volunteer tutor, grades two and four, for both English and French immersion students at the local elementary school and the tales I have heard from teachers are appalling.
"It was the worst and most abusive meeting I have ever had to attend," one teacher told me the other day. In this case, the teacher had to endure an hour-long harangue by the parents of a very difficult and barbaric student who pulls her hair, sticks gum into it and stomps on other students.
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"Wasn't the vice principal there?" I asked. "Yes, but that didn't stop them." How appalling. This teacher even missed a dinner with her Father because she had to sit and endure diatribes and peroration from the very parents who had created the little monster.
What has happened to our educational system? Since when do seven-year-olds get to behave like that? And since when have parents been allowed to climb all over teachers when it's their own kids who are the problem? Back when I was in school, if anything went wrong, the parents always backed the teachers.
I know, I know, people say the teachers have it easy -- big summer and Christmas vacations, huge salaries and benefits -- but I have seen firsthand what they have to put up with. Frankly, it shocked me.
Kids wander the halls at will, yell and pretty much do as they please, regardless of how much it upsets fellow classmates and teachers.
So, the next time you're tempted to complain about teachers and their perks, remember this tale. There are many others similar.
Totally agree
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