re: #230 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

This is how schools ideally should work, but rarely don’t. Teachers are often in the unfortunate circumstance of being a supervisor with no support from the administration or department head. So, if there’s a kid giving you trouble, there may be no one in the office willing to back up the teacher’s interpretation of the rules.

Teacher morale is much better when they know the administration trusts them and has their back when dealing with troublesome students, and need I say it? troublesome parents.

Growing up with my grandmother (who was a schoolteacher at the time), she noted the same sorts of problems. Teachers catch crap from their students, from administrators, and from parents. (Not all of them, but enough to make a teacher’s job tougher than it needs to be.)

“Go easy on Johnny, he’s the mayor’s son.”
“My Freddie can’t get an F on his exam, he’ll get kicked off the football team.” (Coach: You better not give Freddie an F.)

Yup. Takes a strong and sensitive person to be a teacher. I don’t think I could do it. I respected the teachers my son had growing up; I always thought their job was tougher than mine in the Navy.