What Teachers Hate About Parents
"People wonder why children are rude, belligerent and disrespectful. Your article has the answer: they learn it from their parents."
JILL A. GORZE - Pittsburgh
I TAUGHT HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH FOR 34 years and can strongly identify with your article "Parents Behaving Badly" [Feb. 21]. It is so refreshing to read something from the teacher's point of view for a change. Most articles note the flaws in the education profession but seldom discuss, let alone blame, parents for any part in the problem. I am pleased that most of the parents I was actually able to...