A huge difference I’ve noticed is it is becoming disturbingly common for parents to explicitly tell their kids that they don’t have to follow school rules.
Need to pee in the middle of class? Just get up and go, I’m your mom and I say it’s okay.
Don’t want to put your phone in your locker? Just keep it on you. I pay for it, not the school, and I say you can have it on you.
Don’t like your assigned seat? Just get up and move. It’s not that serious, your teacher is just on a power trip.
Students are always so smug about it when they say that their mom gave them permission, and then equally enraged when they still receive the related consequence because mom doesn’t make the rules at school. And then the mom gets pissed and we have to tell her to find another school if she doesn’t like our rules… it’s insanity. Absolutely could never have been me when I was a student, and this was not a thing when I first started teaching. But this kind of attitude has grown increasingly more common every year.
Need to pee in the middle of class? Just get up and go, I’m your mom and I say it’s okay.
Don’t want to put your phone in your locker? Just keep it on you. I pay for it, not the school, and I say you can have it on you.
Don’t like your assigned seat? Just get up and move. It’s not that serious, your teacher is just on a power trip.
Students are always so smug about it when they say that their mom gave them permission, and then equally enraged when they still receive the related consequence because mom doesn’t make the rules at school. And then the mom gets pissed and we have to tell her to find another school if she doesn’t like our rules… it’s insanity. Absolutely could never have been me when I was a student, and this was not a thing when I first started teaching. But this kind of attitude has grown increasingly more common every year.