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My wife spent a couple years volunteering as the treasurer for our local PTA, and we are parents of two elementary-age kids. The harsh truth is that a lot of p
by rootusrootus 6y ago
My wife spent a couple years volunteering as the treasurer for our local PTA, and we are parents of two elementary-age kids. The harsh truth is that a lot of parents have really terrible, entitled attitudes, and they take it out on teachers. The things I've seen are eye-opening, and it makes me sympathize here with the school board. I can't blame them for venting when they were on a call they thought was just their group. We've all done it. What they said was extremely bland compared with what gets said every day by parents.
- temp8964 6y agoContext matters. The school board wants to keep schools closed. There is no science to back this decision at all. Many states have schools reopened for many many months. The school board not only wants to keep schools closed based on purely politics. Now they are attacking parents in closed group discussion? These are horrible human beings and they definitely should not be on the school board.
- rootusrootus 6y agoHorrible human beings? That's a bit hyperbolic. This is the attitude that school teachers get every single day. Politics drives it, I assume. It has become completely okay to treat school staff like they are subhuman. It's hard to then be surprised when they develop a bit of a bunker mentality from being constantly attacked. We all ought to take a look in the mirror before we judge other people, and definitely before we attack them.
- temp8964 6y agoNo. By closing schools for so long, they are literally harming kids. This is not a word game. It has real consequence. There are bad parents out there, so we can do bad things to kids? No.