Put this to a friend of mine whose mam taught at her small rural secondary school. She had two older siblings at the same school too.
“Weird. We couldn’t really misbehave so that’s probably why we all went so wild at college.”
Makes sense. She really did get weird with it in college.
My mom was a teacher in my elementary school, my father was a teacher in my middle school, and, believe it or not, my aunt was a teacher in my highschool. Can confirm I can’t misbehave at school at all, but I didn’t go wild at college though.
Yeah, your uncle probably works at the college or something. Better wait until you become a teacher yourself, then go wild. Lol
By the time they do, their kids will start going to school and the cycle begins again.
*nods
full circle. Yep.
my mom was a teacher at the school I went to from kindergarten to secondary school (it’s normal that some schools offer all grades together where I’m from) and I can confirm this. My classmates could get out of doing whatever, while I was always taken to my mom. College was the first time I felt a bit of independence and it was rough.
It could be lifesaving in those rare occasions that you accidentally call the teacher ‘Mom.’
My mom was one of our lunch ladies in elementary school. It was great lol free desserts, extra food, and I would go sneak chocolate milks during a bathroom break.
Not quite the same, but my Sunday school teacher, who was also one of my parent’s best friends, was my secondary school English teacher. I was always nervous when I got a bad grade in my class, or stepped out of line he’d go tell them. To his credit, he never did, he also didn’t treat me any different to all the other kids in the class. When in church, he was back to being “parent’s friend mode”. Good guy, he was a mentor to me outside of school and I miss him.
It’s forbidden in Germany!
If you happen to go to a school where your parent is employed, you will never land in a class that your parent is teaching. Homeschooling is also forbidden by the way.
Nice! Homeschooling mostly causes mayhem here. So many parents try it for a year or two and then send back illiterate kids to the public system.
Honestly it didn’t seem to cause problems when someone had their own parent, but I can see why there’d be worry.
My mom was teaching in the Kindergarden in the same building as my school grade 1 to 3. My sister was in her Kindergarden. I didn’t really feel much of it.
Later I was working in my doughters Kindergarden (but only 3 months), she never mentioned anything bad. But I remember forcing her to try of every food even if she didn’t want to, until they had hashbrowns with apple sauce which I didn’t want to eat, so the other teachers forced me … 😅
Always wondered the same thing. Nice question.
It was my fourth grade teacher’s dream to be his son’s teacher in school. I was only like 9, but even at that age it felt like a yikes to me. I did NOT want my parent to be my teacher.
My school I’ve gone to being a private one, this has had always been a lot rarer, as people like that typically become faculty members of public schools, but long ago there was someone in my peer group with a teacher parent. Lots of Sharkboy and Lavagirl vibes there because the teacher/parent would go out of their way to comment on the classmate, single her out, and be wary of anyone who became friends with her. I remember whenever a test was to be given and graded, the parent/teacher would be absent.
In what kind of Banana republic is that even allowed?
Some people’s parents are teachers?
Edit: apologies, this was supposed to be sarcasm
Sure. They can even be on the same school as their children. They just can’t teach their own children, as they would clearly be biased.
It happens. I didn’t notice much bias
It happens often I think. I had a kid in class whose mother was a teacher in the same school. I think they shared a class.
This should not happen anywhere with an education system that has any standards.
This was a top 10 private school in the UK
That actually makes sense, those things are rife with nepotism.
Which means it’s likely a US-focussed scenario.
Definitely happens in Ireland. Anywhere populations are small you’re going to face teachers potentially having to teach their own kids at some point.
In small towns and/or schools it’s common.
Second this
You clearly didn’t go to school in a small town, lol. There’s at most one teacher per subject per grade. You can’t just not let the math teacher’s kids take math.
Literally went to school in village with fewer than 900 inhabitants.
So what did the teachers’ kids do? Some how travel an hour to the next town? Not do 1st grade?
Yes, they had to go to school in the next village, 10 minutes away.
What if it was an hour or more? Do you see how that might be unreasonable?
A villiage one hour away from any other villiage with a school? Well, hypotetically I’d say the school has to hire another teacher.
Where do you live? If I ever have kids I want to move there! This level of investment in education borders on fantasy from my local perspective. Our government can’t even be bothered to hire enough teachers to respect the maximum legal class size, let alone hiring a new teacher for a single student just to avoid having a parent teach their child.
