Teachers experience a growing number of angry, abusive parents [View all]
The enraged mother of a kindergartner stormed into her child’s classroom. She allegedly punched her kid’s teacher in the face, grabbed her by the hair and slammed her head twice into a file cabinet.
It made national news for its shock value. But the nation’s public school teachers and principals were not at all surprised at the violent outburst this month at a Hickman Mills elementary school.
They’ve had to contend with a growing number of angry and sometimes abusive parents in recent years.
“When I saw that on the news,” said retired Kansas City principal Roxanne Pearce, “those were the things that gave you the headaches and upset stomach.”
Whether they work in poor urban districts or affluent suburban ones, experts say, teachers and administrators are increasingly becoming punching bags and targets of verbal abuse by students as well as their parents.
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