Cool new term, "Helicopter parents"

[MikeNaked]

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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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That's why I qualified my statement with:

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Not enough parent involvement > too much parent involvement (as far as job satisfaction goes).

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It's not that lower income parents don't care if their kids succeed or not. Quite the opposite. Lower income parents are simply much more respectful of a teacher's curriculum and assessment decisions than pain-in-the-ass HPs. I would rather have parents get out of the way and let me do my job rather than constantly breathing down my neck.