Mitsu's presentation

Author: Alex Martin

Title of article : Teachers beset by unruly parents

Publication: The Japan Times

Date of article: Jan 7, 2009

Summary

In the article, author talks about relationship between teachers and parents. One parents called to homeroom teacher many times because they heard that their child was bullied. But their child actually enjoyed school life, so teacher didn't understand the reason. Because of this, the teacher exhausted and felt stress. Now the number of such parents increase and they demand unreasonable things to teachers because parents want their child to treat specially. As a result, a lot of teacher suffered from this. Such parents are called "monster parents"

Issues

How do teachers treat monster parents?
How should parents treat their children?
How do parents change their thought?

My opinion

Such parents think educational responsibility has teachers. In fact, it is wrong and parents should teach basic manner before entering elementary school. And teachers have to teach what children can't learn in the house such as communication skill, obeying rules, and studying. In addition,parents protect children too much. Because of this problem, they offer unreasonable demands for school. As a result, a lot of teacher commit suicide, become mental illness, and stop going to the school. Moreover, teacher can't deal with another work, such as prepare next class, attend meeting, and join club activity. Parents should reconsider what they think. But teachers also have problems, such as sexual harassment, shortage of teaching skill, and so on. Because of this, teacher's authority is lost and parents don't trust teacher. As a result, they will be monster parents. People have to consider the solutions of monster parents.