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: 2/24/2006 6:50:00 AM Author: Karen Subject: rage and anger We have a society now that seeks to overburden the teachers and the entire public school system with taking on nearly full responsibility for the health, moral, and social issues related to child development as well as the academic subjects they were trained to fulfill. It is too much. It is wrong to demand that teachers become alternate "parents". It is insane to pretend that they have the desire or the abiality to answer most of YOUR child's needs. They did not go into the field to become health workers. They did not go into the field to monitor the emotional development of YOUR child, and to provide guidelines for soicla deelopment. That is the responsibility of the parents. And too many parents want to spend their time avoiding those responsibilites and seek to load them on others, seeking to have more time on their hands for TV, shopping,etc, not wanting to do the hard work of raising a child. If a child has very serious helath problems that mean the child could DIE if exposed to a microscopic fleck of a common food, than it is a reality that the parent needs to accept. That parent may wish that her child could be free of health problems, but that doesnt mean she should expose her child to danger, and then blame the general public for not protecting the child! Name: Email: Subject

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