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> teachers are also doing the 'parenting' side Isn't this exactly what teachers must do, by law? This is what the term 'in loco parentis'[0] means - they are a

• Viliam1234 8y ago
  Parenting is more difficult for a teacher than for a parent, because: - the parent has 1 or 2 or 3 kids, the teacher has 20 or 30 at the same time; - the parent spends plenty of time with kids, the teacher spends 45 minutes, and that's supposed to include teaching and examining; - the parent knows the child for years, the teacher may meet the teenager for the first time; - the parent can use a wild scale of rewards and punishment, the teacher... pretty much nothing, other than verbal feedback. So you can see it is quite unrealistic to expect the teacher to do the same amount of parenting as the parents are supposed to do. (By the way, in my experience the best behaving kids typically have at least one parent a teacher. I suppose it is because that parent has no illusions about how much parenting a school can do, and therefore does not try to outsource parenting to the school.)