18th December 2003, 1:58 PM
Quote:You obviously haven't been to or read anything about public schools today for you to make such an ignorant comment like that. Most teachers have no control over their kids anymore, and I'm not just talking about poor areas. If a kid thinks that he's being treated unfairly by a teacher (and really, what kid doesn't think that?) then that kid will go cry to his or her parents and that parent will complain to the principal, etc. Parents no longer believe that teachers know what they're doing, they don't let them do their jobs anymore. You wouldn't believe how many teachers I've seen quite or lose their jobs because of problems like this.
The best teachers I ever had were the ones that were strict with their students and weren't afraid of making them upset. They did their job well and because of that they made better students.
I spent at least a paragraph in one of my recent posts here talking about how sad it is that teachers can't do a lot of things they should be able to do because of the sue-happy nature of American society...
And Weltall, I'd say thath that's an example of a 'bad' school.