How to Handle Difficult Parents: A Teacher's Survival Guide.How to Handle Difficult Parents: A Teacher's Survival Guide. Suzanne Capek Tingley (Cottonwood cottonwood: see willow. cottonwood Any of several fast-growing North American trees of the genus Populus. Members of the willow family, cottonwoods have heart-shaped, toothed leaves and cottony seeds. The dangling leaves clatter in the wind. Press). Suzanne Capek Tingley, a current superintendent and former principal and teacher, has written a comprehensive and playful--if sometimes repetitive--handbook for teachers who are struggling with their parent relations. Her departure point is the appropriately titled chapter "A Short and Subjective History of Parents," in which she describes the gradual degrading TO DEGRADE, DEGRADING. To, sink or lower a person in the estimation of the public. 2. As a man's character is of great importance to him, and it is his interest to retain the good opinion of all mankind, when he is a witness, he cannot be compelled to disclose of the parent-teacher relationship. Tingley places the blame both on parents, who pamper pam·per tr.v. pam·pered, pam·per·ing, pam·pers 1. To treat with excessive indulgence: pampered their child. 2. their kids too much, and on schools, which emphasize student self-esteem at the expense of student competition and real accomplishment. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tingley dispenses specific advice for how to deal with some common types of the modern parent, such as "The Uncivil Libertarian lib·er·tar·i·an n. 1. One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state. 2. One who believes in free will. [From liberty. ," "The Intimidator," and "The Caped Crusader." Each chapter is centered on hypothetical, often amusing conversations that might transpire between the offending parent and an unfortunate teacher. If you're a teacher who develops a nervous tic Nervous tic A repetitive, involuntary action, such as the twitching of a muscle or repeated blinking. Mentioned in: Hyperactivity Disorder ahead of parent-teacher conferences, this could be the book for you. |
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