Originally Posted by
mhollifiel
Sorry if these offended; however, few people who aren't in education realize the mammoth job teachers have. Educators care or they wouldn't work for the salaries they do. Fortunately, educators are kind and caring people but few in the general public realize the enormous handicaps that students who grow up in homes where learning isn't valued have.
Now that teachers are more and more being held accountable, it's important for this side of things to not be forgotten. I have seen some amazing teachers do amazing things with little home preparation but it bears repeating that it takes a village to raise a child.
I made the comment that I find these sort of posts to be offensive.
My dad is a retired teacher, my mother volunteered in literacy programs at the schools for many years. Almost all my parents friends worked in the local school system, many of my friends and former classmates are teachers.
I do recognized the good work teachers do and the challenges faced in the classroom. Teachers have fewer and fewer resources available to them.
However those challenges do not make okay to poke fun at the families of students. Nor does it make it okay to publish purported, real notes from parents to teachers.
Posts like this do nothing to promote adult literacy programs, do not encourage empathy for the parents. They create a greater gap between the teachers and parents, the school and the greater community. You are exiling the parents from that village that it takes to raise a child.