Teachers' Competence Debate

Meh... teachers can do all those things as well.

I think you have too many preconceptions, assumptions and misinterpretations here. My charitable interpretation of your comment would be that you have been scarred strongly by the event you describe and are generalizing from it unnecessarily. The uncharitable interpretation would be that you have an inflated sense of your own self-worth which was not validated in the above event.When it comes to our own selves we are all necessarily biased in our own favour. Hence we need to step back and tak

Because they feel it's the teacher's job to educate their kids.

It was more a comment on teachers and their currently established ways.

Hey, don't count teachers out; they ruin innocent lives in their own special way.

Goes to show the students are more important than the teachers.

This sounds similar to what teachers face in the USA

what about the parents and teachers?

Have you tried speaking up about it? Teachers don't have magic powers of mind reading.

(There is a point to this wall of text: bear with me.)I used to be a physics teacher; I taught in schools in Australia and the United Kingdom. One of the things that still horrifies me is that many of my colleagues - in Australia in particular - were not terribly clever.In job interviews, there were questions that only make sense to me now in hindsight. One of those questions was about how the teachers that I had had at school influenced my teaching. My answer - which was not well received