Answer the question: Our ‘pushy parents’ need a gentle reality check [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 28 March 2010
Teachers in Tokyo have been sent a booklet offering advice on how to deal with pushy parents. Isn’t it time Ed Balls, the secretary of state for education, did something similar to protect British teachers from unreasonable parental demands?
Christine Solent, by email
If you believe the news reports, the monster mums lurking outside the school gates in Tokyo are a scary lot who think nothing of telling teachers to wash their children’s sports kit or even cut the odd fingernail. I have not heard of British parents behaving in this way, though if the government continues to blur the lines between parents, teachers and social workers, I accept that I soon will.
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