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    Jähzorn und rechtliche Drohungen: Britische Lehrer berichten von einem Anstieg problematischer Eltern

    https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/mar/13/teachers-mental-heath-parents-behaviour-education

    Von OGSyedIsEverywhere

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    1. ramakitty on

      The way things are with education today, I am glad I am neither a parent, nor a teacher, nor a student.

    2. FornyHucker22 on

      The trick to better mental health in a volatile work environment is to simply stop giving a fuck. It’s actually pretty liberating. If you genuinely do not care, it doesn’t get to you 😌

    3. Silencer-1995 on

      Spend twenty years teaching everyone they’re special and all views are valid and then get upset that jaguars are eating you.

    4. Francis-c92 on

      As someone who’s married to a teacher, I’ve definitely seen this get worse for teachers.

      Seems after Covid, parents are seeing teachers more as babysitters and essentially assuming teachers are there to help raise their child.

      They can’t accept either their own failings as a parent or that their child just might be a little dickhead.

    5. regprenticer on

      On my last few visits to school I’ve been told by SEND staff *“school isn’t for everyone, in fact school might not even be for the majority of people“.*

      It’s difficult to square that belief that school staff have with today’s speech.

      > Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, is expected to tell delegates: “The changes you have seen in your classrooms over the past decade – the poverty, the additional need, the technology – this is a new era of childhood, and it calls for a new era of education. An end to policy in parts. *Instead, a village around the child. Every child. With schools as the beating heart of that support.”*

    6. alex_is_the_name on

      The older I get the more I realise how fucked up the education system is

    7. Myke20987 on

      Not surprised, most teachers are clueless nowadays on how to deal with issues in school. Their communication to parents isn’t consistent, punish victims more than perpetrators and half haven’t a clue what’s going on. Substitute teachers are just the worst kind.

    8. Greedy-Tutor3824 on

      The situation is awful. As a teacher I made a phone call home, and the child’s mum accused me of abusing their child (for asking the child to complete a task, directed by the academy scheme of work, which required them to repeat back words) and when I terminated the call quickly after that point, I was then in trouble with management for putting the phone down.

      What was I supposed to do? Get into an argument about how I was or wasn’t abusing a child? Bad parents get support from bad management when the bad kids play up. It feels like there’s no winning in that situation. 

    9. Speeks1939 on

      I have seen teachers saying they have been told they cannot give children homework or even lightly punish, tell children off for bad/ inappropriate behaviour anymore because of gentle parenting parents complaining to the school.

    10. Pepsimax88 on

      A friend of a friend works in primary schools.

      Everytime we see her she has new stories. Parents fighting in front of kids. Fists flying etc. All for the dumbest of reasons.

    11. jolovesmustard on

      Schools do need to stop giving detentions/suspensions for minor things. The secondary schools in my area literally give out detentions for not sitting up straight, talking without raising your hand and many more ridiculous reasons. Of course parents are going to question this. The schools need to stop giving teachers targets for the amount of detentions given. Rules in some secondary schools are greater than those in prisons. As a parent I will always fight back if my child is denied access to the toilet. Schools in my area lock them and only open them during breaks. If the adults are legally protected about toilet breaks, the kids should too.

    12. Emergency_Cellist754 on

      It’s another facet of the omniproblem.

      Everyone is convinced they are the main character, they are the nost important person on earth, and they should be able to do whatever they want, and this is simply the extension of that to their kids.

      Public standards and common decency are disappearing and they’re not coming back.

    13. gwentlarry on

      Been an issue for a long time but seems to be getting much worse over recent years.

      My wife used to be a teacher but quit teaching over 30 years ago, in her 40s. While parent behaviour was nowhere near as bad then as now, it was an issue in some areas of the country.

      Look also at the behaviour of some parents in, for example, Saturday children’s football where parents watching get into fights with each other.

    14. Additional_Pickle_59 on

      The PGCE course is also a mess, teachers may pass but the support they get is terrible.
      Some teachers have moved over from the private sector and have never had to deal with mouth breathing kids and honestly they’re not emotionally equipped to handle the kids.
      I’m not saying the kids should be behaving like monsters but some teachers don’t have the EQ to control a classroom no matter how well they’re behaved.

      I remember my chemistry teacher having a breakdown because we were all talking after lunch. „I did not get 2 degrees to get treated like this!“ I understand the work that went into that but at this stage of life, kids just don’t care and find it condescending, it’s a teacher’s job to make them understand the significance of what a degree is.

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