Parents Behaving Badly. Nancy Gibbs.
by Gibbs, Nancy; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 9Institutions. Publisher: Time, 2005ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Behavioral assessment of children | Child development | Education -- Parent participation | Grading and marking (Students) | Parent-teacher relationships | Parental overprotection | Parenting | Teachers -- AttitudesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Ask teachers about the best part of their job, and most will say how much they love working with kids. Ask them about the most demanding part, and they will say dealing with parents. In fact, a new study finds that of all the challenges they face, new teachers rank handling parents at the top....While teachers worry most about the parents they never see, the ones who show up faithfully pose a whole different set of challenges. Leaving aside the monster parents who seem to have been born to torment the teacher, even 'good' parents can have bad days when their virtues exceed their boundaries: the eager parent who pushes too hard, the protective parent who defends the cheater, the homework helper who takes over, the tireless advocate who loses sight of the fact that there are other kids in the class too." (TIME) This article explores the complicated issue of parent-teacher relationships.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Parents Behaving Badly, Feb. 21, 2005; pp. 40-49.
"Ask teachers about the best part of their job, and most will say how much they love working with kids. Ask them about the most demanding part, and they will say dealing with parents. In fact, a new study finds that of all the challenges they face, new teachers rank handling parents at the top....While teachers worry most about the parents they never see, the ones who show up faithfully pose a whole different set of challenges. Leaving aside the monster parents who seem to have been born to torment the teacher, even 'good' parents can have bad days when their virtues exceed their boundaries: the eager parent who pushes too hard, the protective parent who defends the cheater, the homework helper who takes over, the tireless advocate who loses sight of the fact that there are other kids in the class too." (TIME) This article explores the complicated issue of parent-teacher relationships.
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