Before you judge the teacher take the time and go sit in a class see how things are.
Like that is going to happen, and even if it did, I am sooo sure the teacher would act as they normally would when no parent was present. Pffffft.
Don't just take a child's word on it, maybe for some reason the child doesn't like the teacher because of one reason or another, kids are kids and they like to make things up to try to get people in trouble.
Some teachers live by this creed. The child should never be believed over the teacher. Well, lady, that don't wash with me. Yes, there are times when a kid is going to bend the truth to keep from getting into trouble. But there are just as many teachers willing to bend that same truth knowing the odds of being believed are better considering they are the adult and the authority figure in the situation.
And before you go ape chit, I have dealt with dozens and dozens of wonderful teachers over the years.
Those with a calling for it, with vision, patience and the ability to motivate and teach.
And then you have the ass-wipes who are jaded, with nasty attitudes and are on a bit of a power trip, who know once they are tenured they are untouchable unless a district wants to, or can afford to, spend a small fortune to terminate them.
I lived it in my own high school years. I watched a teacher refuse to let a boy go to the bathroom because he had been once already, and eventually the boy had a bowel movement in his pants during the class. This was after repeated hand raising pleas to go to the bathroom. And this was in high school.
I won't mention the name because bast.rd is dead and buried now. But he taught a business class and was the department head in the mid seventies.
I watched a sixth grade female elementary school teacher have a boy by the hair and an arm around his neck, calling him a "m....f...." amongst a dozen other filthy names in the hallway outside of the principal's office. This was in the late nineties. The principal fired her and ran her out of the building as I stood their moritified, she returned the next day thanks to Illinois' tenure law.
Now, if that happened today, and a child went home and told his parents what had happened, what are the odds that the teacher would own up to it?
It shouldn't have happened then, and by God, it better not happen now or the district would be writing a mighty fat check.
So, when you say the times are changing, you are right, atleast about somethings.
Your argument about teachers being forced to deal with a child's issues, you are right, but it's not like they are going into that blind these days.
If anyone decides to educate themselves to become a teacher, they now know what they are dealing with, and if they aren't capable of teaching under those conditions, they need to look for another career.