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...HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH FOR 34 years and can strongly identify with your article "Parents Behaving Badly" [Feb. 21]. It is so refreshing to read something from the teacher's point of view for a change. Most articles note the flaws in the education profession but seldom discuss, let alone blame, parents for any part in the problem. I am pleased that most of the parents I was actually able to reach were cooperative. I did, however, occasionally encounter a mom or dad who displayed a less than realistic view of the adolescent angel taking up space (and often little else...
...that these illiterate underachievers are responsible for teaching and evaluating my children. I hate the fact that these teachers receive the support of a union that makes the Teamsters look like wimps. I hate the fact that teachers apparently wish to claim all the credit for good students but blame parents for bad students. And I hate the mere notion that teachers are even asked what they hate about parents...
...blame books, magazines and movies for all the pressure, though. It's our fault too for buying into the women's-magazine cycle of building up our self-esteem and then exploiting our insecurities with endless tips on dieting, flirting and impressing a man in bed. (If we're so fabulous, why do we need so much fixing up?) It's an addictive game as well. When meeting up with friends, the question Are you dating anyone? comes up too soon. Even on girls' nights out, we usually talk about boys...
...Larry is someone who very easily took on this shape—this abrasive ‘bull in a china shop’ thing—so every new anecdote was pressed into that form. But I don’t think you can blame that on the media. Larry gave himself that shape,” Traub says. “He handed the media a self-parodied version of himself and they all too happily adopted...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's assertion Syria shared blame for last week's bombings in Tel Aviv because, as she told NBC news, "Palestinian Islamic Jihad, operating in Syria, had advance knowledge of the attacks...