Parents matter in deciding where you want to teach.

Recently I wrote a post about parents at schools that care too much about their child’s education (here). This is the opposing post, about those parents who don’t care enough. Here are some characteristics of parents that don’t care enough.

Parents who don’t care enough

• Students may not value education as their parents don’t.
• This may lead to students not showing up to class very often, and as their is no support for education from home, there is no easy solution.
• Discipline is a challenge as students don’t fear the consequences and are not reprimanded by parents.
• Parents don’t give any support to students or to teachers, and so teachers can feel alone in situations.
• Parents don’t keep teachers accountable, and so teachers may be tempted to be lazy.
• Students may not have proper resources such as pens and pencils with which to work, and so learning may be compromised.

These are some characteristics of parents who don’t care. I don’t know of any private school where teachers don’t care (if you pay that much then you care). But unfortunately there is a minority of (not all) public schools in which there are some parents like this.

Stay tuned for one final post on parents, about why parents matter in making the decision on where to teach.

You can read the rest of the posts in this series at Public vs Private | Main Page.