Home Featured Content Article Archive Directors' Choice Awards About Us Activities & Curriculum Arts & Crafts Teacher Quicksource Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Blog State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 8/2/2005 5:12:00 PM Author: Terri Subject: in reply to DJ I am respondidng to a previous post by the parent who demanded that a child with asthma be given special attention on a field trip by the teacher, and she was expected to withdraw the entire group of children from the field trip exhibits earlier than expected in order to walk the entire group back to the entrance where the child could be given a breathing treatment! The asthmatic child had not suffered any attacks in years. This is unfair to the teacher , her profession, and the other children. I have worked in many classrooms of various levels. I have seen parents in the grocery store not even be able to control one or two children, and I have seen them react with bribes and other quick fixes. Yet the same parents would expect a school teacher to pander to their child, and multiply that by 30 other parents and you can imagine how unrealistic that idea is. There was a time when teachers were respected as educators. Parents did not trample all over the teacher's territory. Children were instilled with expectations for their behavior in school. But, today we have a victim society, and that has reached the schools where all these parents see their child as vicitmized by an uncaring teacher if every whim isnt addressed. I dont accept it, and neither do most intelligent educators that I know. Schools should have a nurse or health professional to address medical issues. Teachers have a huge job in educating a society that is declining in academic standards compared to other nations! Parents need to reassume their role as caregivers, and stop demanding that opthers do their job. It's got very little to do with allergies and asthma, and a whole lot to do with the abdication of parental responsibility Name: Email: Subject

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