More unreasonable requests by parents
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on October 17th, 2007
Supposedly unreasonable demands from parents are a big problem for schools these days.
An article in the Asahi today says that in the Osaka school district there were 251 incidents of this. Here are some examples that are presented.
- The sports day festival was canceled because of rain, so please refund to us the money it cost our child’s grandparents to travel here with the intention of seeing it.
- On the way to school [with the other children] please adjust to our child’s personal rhythm.
- As our child will no longer be able to use his textbooks, please refund them.
- Please beware. Whether our child will follow the school rules or not is up to him [and not the school].
I’ve commented on this type of thing before.
I’m frustrated by the attitude of the teachers. They seem to want to create this crisis whereby they are being pushed too hard by the parents. Is the problem really that serious?
I’m equally frustrated by the incredible sense of entitlement some of these parents feel towards the public education system. Because they don’t actually pay for the schools (directly), they’ve little sense of proportion when making these requests.