Head teachers complain of abuse!

I saw the following article on the BBC news website and I personally think it is a very worrying development in UK society when not even parents can have rational conversations with headmasters about there childrens behaviour!

Head teachers say they are increasingly being abused, threatened and assaulted by parents. The National Association of Head Teachers says, in January alone, five head teachers were attacked by parents, while 10 were threatened by them.

One teacher was even chased by a parent after receiving telephone threats which can be considered very worrying indeed. She says she and her family as well as teachers and governors at her primary school in Wisbech were harassed, intimidated and threatened by the parents.

Personally, I think a teachers job is getting harder by the day and parents should really learn to control their emotions or how do they expect their children to control them. And personally I do not think that classroom disputes should leave the classroom, but maybe this is an old fashioned view now?