To: Parents From. A teacher-

When I started teaching students for the first time, I was so excited and thrilled about my teaching profession. However before long, I found out that these feelings were not there anymore. Instead, my fantasy about teaching was broken and I realized the reality.

Here are some reasons that bring me out of the fantasy about the teaching profession; Our society has a very bad prejudice about teachers, the students' behavior toward teachers is getting harder and harder, the working environment is inferior, the education system is not systematic, the entrance examination keeps changing and the salary system is not that fair. But above all, the most serious thing that make me feel sad is the parents' rude and wrong attitude toward teachers. It is true that having a good relationship between teachers and parents is getting harder and harder whether or not the teacher has a long career in teaching. According to the Korean Federation of Teachers' Association (KFTA) last year there were 204 violations against teacher authority, among them around 39% violations were done by parents.

Of course I don't say that all teachers are right and all parents are wrong.
And I know many parents try to show some interest about their children and school. But some parents show teachers selfish love for their children and a very rude attitude toward teachers. This makes teachers feel depressed.

It is necessary to punish students when they do something wrong like stealing, cheating on exam, bullying others, and defying teachers etc. But some parents don't accept their children's fault instead they shout at teachers and blame the school. They just think that the school and teachers damage their children and focus on protecting them from the school's penalties. Whenever I read and see this kind of situation, I feel depressed. And when teachers' sense of mission and passion decreases, the education will become worse and worse and finally the damage will go to the children.

I know that some teachers' wrongful acts like receiving a small gift or money, hitting students severely, not doing their own development with mannerism etc may cause the distrust of parents. But with this application to all the teachers, if the parents distrust the teachers and behave carelessly without etiquette how in the world can the teachers amend the problematic conduct of the children and help them advance in the proper direction?

I know, it is very difficult for parents to see objectively and recognize the wrongful acts of their own children. But, if the parents leave their children to the care of the school, they must believe in the teachers and cooperate with them.

Most teachers still love children under the unfavorable conditions and are proud of themselves as a teacher and do their best in everything.

So, if parents trust teachers and teachers eradicate the bad practices and they cooperate with each other, we are able to provide better education to the children.

I edited out the annoying html coding ~ Willy

Welcome Tigerbear.
I understand that the relationships in the past between teachers and parents in Korea were directly proportional to how many favors and how much money was given by the parents to the teacher. Often the more favors given to the teachers determined the treatment, and even the grades of the student. The old customs of payoffs and favors still exists in many schools and buisness transactions today, not only in Korea. Oriental parental pride in particularly male children, and the feeling of "Losing Face" in front of friends if their child was less than successful in school, still exists, unfortunately.