Teachers experience a growing number of angry, abusive parents

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2. Students, parents, and even teachers are getting fed up with how broken our public school system is.

I am furious, but I have never verbally abused any of my son's teachers even though I really did not like his math teacher last year. My son's math teacher was also his IEP advocate but he never advocated for my son. He just blamed him for not trying hard enough. My son was placed in a math class that was two years more advanced than his comprehension level. Our system is broken and people are angry. I am angry. But I think our anger would be better directed at the state and federal government for not funding education and for putting Race to the Top in place. We also need to direct our anger at our state legislators for making state standardized test scores a requirement for graduation, and city school districts who come up with crazy rules such as all students must take grade level math or English(I have encountered this in two different school districts). It is time to fight back but I see no need in verbally assaulting our teachers. Many of them are on our side and we are on their side.