The article, “What Teachers Really Want to Tell Parents,” by Ron Clark, portrays the thoughts that teachers have toward the parents of their students and how they can get just as frustrated as the parents can.
Ron Clark explains in “What Teachers Really Want to Tell Parents” that the parents of students they are teaching a presenting a real problem in education today and could be resulting in kids not getting the education they need. A point that is made in the article is that the best teachers don’t give the best grades, because they have higher expectations for responsibility, therefore it is harder for kids to get good grades. This is an interesting point because I always thought that the classes I did the best in were the best classes and I learned the most from them, but now I know that that might not be the case anymore. Another point made in the article was that when a student gets a bad grade on something or a teacher gives them a bad report on behavior, the parents of the kid usually try to stand up for the kid, prove the teacher wrong, and make the grade higher just so their child will do better. I can see why this is so frustrating for teachers because they know what they are doing in the classroom and since it’s their class, they should be able to justify what should be going on in that class. I can sympathize with these teachers because personally, I hate it when people try to prove me wrong and I always make sure I have a reason to back myself up. To add to the problem, when parents try to raise kids’ grades by talking with teachers, that not only teaches the student that it is okay to use excuses to get by in life, but it will limit their futures because they will not have the work-ethic and hard-working skills they need to get jobs in the future. Overall, I learned that it is important to respect teachers and learn to trust them because they were the ones trained to teach the kids, and they know more about what the kids will get out of it than the parents do.
