In Japan, a new term, Monster Parents, emerged in the teaching circle, to describe those ultra-demanding mums and dads. One of the examples is like this, a mother lodged a complaint against a teacher, about the "unreasonableness" for requesting her kid to deliver a speech towards a crowd of classmates. This kid, according to his mummy, disliked speaking in front of people.
Among all the valid reasons, the downgrading of schooling to consumer goods should be a contributing force. In the good old days, teachers were highly respected. Though some of us may challenged some of them sporadically, under the effect of hormones. Mostly, we revered teachers and trusted their judgment. By then, we still had the vague belief that teachers were doing for the goodness of their students, whatever the means were.
The tide changed. The culprit should be those course evaluations. Under the facade of democracy and impartiality, students views are collected, regarding the performance of their mentors. However, teachers are no consumer goods, the nuance of their quality is not crystal clear. In addition, students' motive is suspicious. According to my personal experience, only those tutors who were generous enough to provide exam tips could be well-liked. Thus, teachers image and integrity is battered.
So, the boys and girls who participated in the course evaluation are now parents. They know the game and how to fight for their children. In order to protect their own jobs, teachers would do the ridiculous stuff as ordered by the Monster Parents. Anyway, customers never commit wrongdoing.
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