“Everything I loved about teaching is extinct.”

[KittyWampus]

10. My Mother who taught little kids over many, many years said in her last few> she was a social worker

as well as teacher.

No society is perfect but America has become very hostile to families.

And I also think there's a strain of narcissism here that has many parents focused primarily on their own fulfillment and material wealth as more important than spending time with their kids and teaching them. And to compensate for the narcissism they over-indulge the kids and refuse to enforce discipline. I am absolutely not referring to parents who must work to keep the roof over their heads and food on the table.

When I was in school, if a teacher were to ever call home saying I misbehaved etc there would have been a lot of grief for me.

Now it seems it's always the teacher's fault.

It usually isn't.

It's the parents.