Cool new term, "Helicopter parents"

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I like this one. A dude goes nuts on the coach when his daughter is cut from the basketball team.

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"The new term is helicopter parents," said McKee. "These are the ones who are right there hovering over the playing field, over the classroom, and they want everything to go the way it should go for their special child."

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When Parents Attack!

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Every time a parent attacks someone the kid should be shot in front of the parent and then the parent should be shot. Every [censored] time.

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Every time a parent attacks someone the kid should be shot in front of the parent and then the parent should be shot. Every [censored] time.

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can't really follow something like that.

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Every time a parent attacks someone the kid should be shot in front of the parent and then the parent should be shot. Every [censored] time.

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lol are you trying to fit this template into as many threads as you can?

[PokerGoblin]

What a [censored] idiot. I can't stand people like that. I will definitely be adding this to my list of pet peeves.

In HS none of the sports teams were of very high quality, and therefore every single week there were these [censored] parents in the stands during football and basketball games yelling at the coaches, yelling at the refs... it was/is ridiculous. Some even went so far as to send hate mail to the coaches. The worst part is most of them didn't even have kids on the damn team.

These people are pathetic

OK my blood pressure is way too high now.

PG

[MikeNaked]

Yah, HPs are one of the reasons I choose to stay in a diverse, low-income school district rather than my neighborhood, upper-class, white-bread school districts. Not enough parent involvement > too much parent involvement (as far as job satisfaction goes).

You go to parent conferences wearing a codpiece 'cause you know that the deserving Bs, Cs, and Ds you've awarded will cause the parents to attack and and complain to the administration. It's YOUR fault the 4.0 kid got a B, because Precious tries really, really hard and has never gotten a poor grade, blah blah....

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The worst part is most of them didn't even have kids on the damn team.

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Haha, that's pretty damn sad.

It's a shame how much our culture has dumbed down into little more than sports and music.

[Lazymeatball]

So you prefer working with students whose parents don't care whether they succeed or not? Funny, I've always heard the opposite when it comes to teaching.

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I saw a very interesting article in The Atlantic once by a teacher who confessed he used to be really into teaching kids and had standards for them, but found himself attacked on both sides when he gave out less than great grades whether kids deserved them or not. First, by the parents, who nearly universally want their kids to get good grades whether or not they deserve them, and are more interested in maintaining their image of their kids as smart than they are in their kids actually being responsible and trying hard. Second, by the administrators the parents complain to. He said that the teachers who cave in to the parents get better ratings by teachers, students, and the administration, and help secure their careers, while there is no reward whatsoever for doing the right thing.

One of the sadder articles I've read. He made the job of actually educating students and grading fairly sound basically hopeless. And a career-killer, too.

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One of the sadder articles I've read. He made the job of actually educating students and grading fairly sound basically hopeless. And a career-killer, too.

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Having almost considered working in this sector at one point, I am extremely glad I chose not to.