Eine neue Studie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass in den USA in den letzten Jahren die Schulleitung von K-12-Schulen häufiger als Lehrer oder psychiatrische Fachkräfte Aggressionen seitens der Eltern erlebte: Mehr als 4 von 10 wurden verbal bedroht und etwa 1 von 5 gab an, öffentlich gedemütigt oder im Internet gemobbt worden zu sein.
https://news.osu.edu/parents-direct-more-threats-toward-school-administrators-than-teachers/
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Abstract of study published in Psychology of Violence: [https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fvio0000697](https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fvio0000697)
School sucks… for everyone involved apparently.
So, you mean to tell me that bully kids may have bully parents? I have been suspicious of this since I was a child, and now I have a small shred of evidence for my insight. This is entirely consistent with my hypothesis.
One of my media organizations works with local school admin….it’s a every day struggle for them dealing with bully parents.
Yeah you could not pay me enough to get involved in k-12. It’s only going to get worse.
My experience with school administrators has definitely been a mixed bag as a parent. More than a few had delusions of being a tinpot dictator and the worst sort of Karens. I could see where someone equally unbalanced might be inclined to smack them around. When you get a good one they unfortunately don’t last forever in that environment.
When I was a substitute teacher, I once sat in a front office of a k-6 elementary school during lunch and observed a parent who came into the office to collect their child who kept running out of a teacher’s classroom. The kid had a proctor assigned to him to chase him down each time he escaped, which was multiple times that day. The mother accused the teacher of „not entertaining“ her child enough. She was absolutely irate, cursing at the principal and office staff.
The kid in question was in the office during this entire exchange, and the entire time, he was attempting to hop the counter. While mom was laying into the clerk who came to the teacher’s defense, the kid made it over the counter and bolted out the front door. Mom didn’t care at all, watched it happened and kept blaming the school. The school’s assigned SRO had to chase the kid down the street.
Purely anecdotal, but it was one of the many reasons I ended my pursuit of a teaching career..
Bet their kids are bullies as well
This is not surprising to me that I work in education, specifically special ed. I can’t remember the number of times my coworkers and I have been yelled at for things completely out of our control.
Isn’t that admin’s job, to soak up the non-teaching-related stresses from teachers so the teachers can teach? Admin don’t teach, or serve food, or mop floors; they have to do *something* to earn their keep.
Mental health professionals and teachers have you and your child’s best interest at heart. The school administrators only care about keeping their positions and salaries and they do that by throwing everyone under the bus.
Administrators would rather your grade school child have encounters with law enforcement rather than be compassionate and accommodate their needs, and when everything goes wrong they can just expel them, while also harassing and threatening you for them not being enrolled in school.
It’s quite the system.
I still remember the day the principal asked my mother to her face if she could read. I thought she was about to reach across the desk and strangle the man.
Had two children go through Baltimore City public schools. Without question administrators were, by far and away, the most problematic piece of the dynamic. If the study dug deeper it would probably find that administrative rigidity is the #1 reason for the abuse. Most administrators I encountered had zero empathy for teachers or students. When you treat parents, students and teachers as the problem, to the point of adversarial, it’s not surprising.
As a former teacher, I get it. Most of the admins I worked with were far from good at it.
When a teacher is having difficulties with a parent they kick that problem up to administration, so this makes perfect sense.
(Or at least that was the policy when I taught).
That seems low to me. School admin SHOULD be the ones dealing with aggressive parents so that teachers don’t have to. Do I wish that parents were not aggressive? YES. Are they mad because the school is doing something wrong? Occasionally, but usually they are just rude people. We have had to trespass several parents from our school each year for threatening admin, teachers, or their children’s classmates.
My female admin has had several male parents step to her in the last two years. It’s wild. But the verbal abuse is weekly on our campus. She’s a saint for dealing with the community and does a lot to direct the abuse away from staff.
This is suprising. In twenty years of teaching and multiple admin changes, admin usually cave to parents and teachers are made to bend, cave, give, change, make adjustments. Admin side with parents and the teachers and class as a whole suffers.