Reader's Comment, Fed up teachers form Educators at Risk support group, Yasmine Phillips, education reporter, The Sunday Times, 19 February 2011: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/fed-up-teachers-form-educators-at-risk-support-group/story-e6frg12c-1226008658607 Historical link preserved from the original page.
Some students are so difficult to deal with that school administrators go into denial and adopt avoidance tactics.
Teachers need more support from administration when students are not behaving appropriately at a classroom level.
Some students' behaviour is so difficult to deal with that School Administration goes into denial and uses avoidance tactics.
The teacher is stopped from teaching the rest of the class who want to learn because of constant behavioural interruptions.
Whole school and parent accountability is required for success with this problem instead of the teachers being made an easy scapegoat for a huge societal problem.
Students with behaviour problems become adults who still have not become accountable for their behaviour.
Teacher Ms E. W., Reader's Comment 14 of 37, Fed up teachers form Educators at Risk support group, Yasmine Phillips, education reporter, The Sunday Times, 19 February 2011: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/fed-up-teachers-form-educators-at-risk-support-group/story-e6frg12c-1226008658607 Historical link preserved from the original page.
Parents: stop undermining your child's teacher.
I am a mother, an ex-high school teacher, and a medical professional working in paediatrics, so I have had a lot to do with children and have seen the same problems from all of these viewpoints.
The common denominator is that parents these days don't know how to be parents, they don't form a co-operative bond with the teacher, nor do they take an active role in the education of their child.
Parents - do your children a favour, support their teachers instead of undermining them and expecting them to do your job of parenting.