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Originally Posted by Taualumna
It's not the teachers, it's the parents. We don't have as much "family time" as we used to. Kids often eat dinner at different times, and spend weekends playing sports or taking lessons. As they get older, they "go and hang out." Parents are also so protective of their kids' feelings that they don't care that their children are failing. They don't want their children to know that they're dumb. And since teachers don't want to be fired, they listen to what the 'rents want.
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I probably could have dictated your post back to you before I even opened it, but hey . . .
Short version: prove it.
Long version: This is a gross oversimplification of everything science can currently tell us about childhood development. The reality is this "go and hang out" time has always existed, just in different ways - maybe it was spent playing ball in the past, but it was always there.
We now know that the role of peer groups is probably the most important part of childhood development and determination of personality. Blaming this all on the parents, while convenient, is pretty much fallacious. A teacher's unwillingness to stand up to a parent over a student's failures is only partially the parent's fault. A student's lack of consistent dinner/family time seems somewhat irrelevant if this time is not spent specifically promoting school, or (worse) is in a dysfunctional setting. Generalities like this are not a substitute for logic and planning, and they go a long way toward helping the problem, and not the solution.
Bad parents are a detriment to their children's success. Bad teachers use bad parents as the ultimate cop-out for difficult students.
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