The Jackhammer Parents Are Here and They’re Destroying School

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3 points·metadat··6 comments

> I saw on her author page that she posted about being ready for “a glass of wine the size of her head” on a Friday. Is this the kind of reputation we want our teachers to have?

This is just rich.

How pervasive is this phenomenon?

I know this pece is about the US, but I am seeing this shit in my kids school in the UK. People get on face book and just give any one from the school loads of crap when ever something does not go there or there kids way.

Yes, it was bad pre-pandemic, and now it's only getting worse. Parents seem scared to the point of insanity, and massive disrespect and distrust for the institution trying to help them care for their precious kiddos.

The net effect is they end up harassing individuals to the point where the teachers become less effective at their jobs. In the short, medium, and long-term this punishes the teacher personally, school admins, as well as their own children and other people's kids. For no gain, just externalizing a single parent's pain and wrath.

"However, I am an expert in creating a common language for nameless phenomena in the teaching profession."

Ah, good. I was worried my child's teacher might come up short in this critical didactic task.

Have you ever hird of the idiom tongue-in-cheek?

She's deadly serious.

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