• Gympie_Gympie_pie@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’m from Italy and several of my friends are teachers: parents nowadays are so abusive towards teachers, they will blame the teachers for their lazy child’s low grades. It’s the teacher’s fault if the child fails tests, or if is unruly and gets reprimanded. Parents never blame their lazy, videogames-playing, social media-browsing kid for failing tests, nor they take responsibility for not ensuring they do their homework. They wait for the teachers outside the school to attack them, they criticise them with the other parents, they complain with the principal, they even move kids to other schools (where the cycle starts over)… everything but owing that their child just doesn’t study enough. Fanatical parents are a real issue

    • TheFonz@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m also from Italy, and let’s not kid ourselves: The education system here is still somewhere in the 70s in terms of understanding child development or anything related to pedagogy. Not saying youre wrong about parents neglecting their kids either though.