why does society not give teachers the respect that they deserve?
969113
You are wrong. Society gives a lot of respect to teachers. What they don't give is a living (aka salary), as money is more expensive than respect.
1092142
Yes! There are too many students who believe that Thug Life is proper behavior for school; and because the states/parents have tied the hands of teachers by relieving them of disciplinary strategies, some students think it's a ticket to a fun house where they can do anything they want to without repercussions.
689531
Teachers don't get paid much, unless they are good enough and lucky enough to teach at a ritzy private academy. So not too many people want to put up with kids all day for chicken feed, so you have to put more and more kids into one classroom because there aren't enough teachers to go around, which makes the teaching job that much more difficult and that much more unpleasant until finally no one wants to be a teacher anymore and all our kids end up ignorant and poor and so they rob you for a living.
146305
Being a teacher myself....I would want to see why it is important, who should do it, who should you respect, how you show respect, and how if you show me respect, I'll show you respect!!  Hope this helps.
577956
While I agree with you remember teachers are on a schedule and have guidelines that they are expected to follow too. The pressure is on them and you.\nThey in general (I know there are some exceptions to the rule) want you to succeed. And they will do whatever they can to help you. But they have someone they need to answer to too.\n\nWho wants someone to fail in life? And besides that if your scores are low what does that say about their teaching?
294428
1.  The teachers' union.  This causes the wrong sort of people to be retained as teachers just because they have seniority, while good teachers with low seniority are let go.  It also stifles creativity and superior teaching techniques, because the whole mentality of a union is to not show up the marginal worker.  Teachers are not factory workers!\n\n2.  Bureaucracy, and specifically federal bureaucracy.  They have their own agenda, and it runs toward the Politically Correct, to propaganda, and makes the individual student's needs the lowest priority.  The bureaucracy is inflexible, inefficient, and expensive.\n\nBasically, anything that interferes with a child's ability to learn what is interesting to him, what he needs for his life in the future, and what his parents want him to know, is bad for the child.  Most of the social conditioning is bad for the child.  And generally, the physical conditions are bad for the child.\n\nI understand the black tee shirt I saw on the bus when the high school kids got on:  "School prepares you for the real world, which also s**ks."
555358
I highly doubt it.  Look at it this way.\n\nI do feel teachers that get more respect from students reward them as most of us do in our social dealing with others.  Show respect and and you'll get respect in turn.  Teachers are plain human not superhuman.  \n\nI had a teacher in high school that I showed a lot of respect for when the other students did not.  She offered more support and I know I got better grades as a result.
140623
The lack of respect for teachers (and most authority figures, for that matter) has been escalading for decades because children once were taught to question authority (late 50's and early 60's), then the children learned to resist authority (late 60's and 70's), later the children learned to challenge authority (80's and 90's), leading up to today, where children disregard all authority.\n\nThere are many reasons why this has come about. Part of it is the break-up of the traditional home - two parents that show their children how to respect adults. Another part of the blame falls on the media business - teen and kid movies that show adults as being bumbling idiots that only want to subdue children, TV shows with parents that give into their child's every desire, and music that encourages children to stand up against authority.
606855
Depends on the like though! I've aways wanted my teachers to like me because i was good at my work,but teachers are human, we tend to see them as walking encyclopedias - it would be good to know them as they really are people with feelings, family, dreams like everyone else too don't you think?
378120
There are many problems that exist with public schools, and there are a variety of reasons.  Parents aren't making their kids learn any discipline or have any discipline about learning, schools are underfunded, teachers are underpaid, (which makes some potentially great teachers choose other fields) lack of community support, exagerated emphasis on standardized testing, etc.  The biggest problem would be apathy from the general public, everyone always thinks that it either isn't their problem or that someone else will fix it. It's like the TV ad with the huge group of people standing around talking about how horrible it is that someone dropped trash 2 feet from the trash can, but no one in the group actually reaches down and picks it up.  Lest you all think I am all talk and no action, I am an 11 year veteran teacher of public high school, and yes, I am still "in the trenches."
740419
People can't give what they don't have.  If they can't give respect or love or understanding, it's likely that it wasn't taught to them.
87929
Teachers fill a very necessary role in society.  Take away the teachers and nobody would be able to "do".
576629
I went to school in an era when corporal punishment was the norm, in private school and public school, and I went to both private & public, What was it like? well of course no one wanted to get paddled by a teacher but, to be honest it was not a bad thing, there was a saying "It takes a tribe to raise a child" which means no one did it alone "back in da day" there was a thing called "respect your elders" which mean you didn't talk back to adults, you did not cruse in their present, you said things like "Yes ma'am, No ma'am" Now-a-days the elders are more afaird of the young which means there's No Respect. does this help any?
96662
Perhaps if you showed your teacher some respect, she would treat you better.....respect is a two way street.
289848
I think there are a number of reasons for this.  Generally it seems that the powers that be don't really value work that was traditionally done by women.  Also, jobs that are perceived to deal primarily with child care aren't valued very highly.  There is a certain degree of resentment toward teachers because of vacation time (without making allowances for all the unpaid overtime).  Teachers themselves are by nature, caregivers, and sometimes don't get assertive enough in standing up for themselves.  \n\nIt is interesting that teachers in Canada are paid much better than in the US.  In many professions the reverse is true.\n\nThose are some of my thoughts on the issue.
659479
lack of respect for others
342134
They want teachers to agree with them that "my child would NEVER behave like that!!"\nThey want teachers to give their children something for nothing...i.e. grades.\nThey want teachers to suddenly come up with an extra-credit assignment for their child (so the little darling can pass) when there are two weeks left in the final semester and their child's average is sitting at 47%.\nThey want teachers to put their own life on hold while they spend their entire weekend grading extra-credit assignments so their wonderfully well-behaved, academically groomed child WILL pass, dammit!\nAnd so on, and so on, and so on......