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...meetings can be accusatory - if my child is struggling or misbehaving, it must be your fault. "The crux of the issue is that teachers are nice people," says Anne, a Sydney Year 1 teacher. "We're nurturers. We like children. We respond to courtesy, not cutthroat corporate behavior." Fionie Stavert, an organizer with the N.S.W. Teachers Federation, says she's cynical enough to believe that in certain parts of Sydney parental complaints about teachers peak during rainy spells - the mothers have missed out on their tennis so they gossip about teachers over coffee instead. Stavert credits most teachers with enormous...
...when they opt to support their daughter they're condoning the inappropriate behavior. On those occasions the best outcome, for the school and for the parents, is to part." Then there's the proliferation of recognized psychiatric disorders. By attributing naughtiness to conditions like Oppositional Defiance Disorder, says organizer Stavert, parents can "absolve themselves of responsibility. They'll say to teachers, 'How dare you discipline my child!' That's intolerable when there are 30 kids in the class...
...really puts his abilities to good use and challenges his students to look at medicine and issues from a different perspective,” says Robert R. Stavert ’03, who took Farmer’s course, “Poverty, Culture and Infectious Disease,” this spring...
...Stavert said his committee was “working to get money from every possible angle,” including advertising revenue and the Harvard Business and Law Schools. “We’re trying to think big,” he said...
...will try to attract big-name bands for the year’s remaining concerts, in a departure from last spring’s Springfest, which featured cost-efficient student bands, development committee co-chair Robert R. Stavert ’03 said...