Oh how true that is, and I became an angry parent for a short time, which felt like many years. It all started because the educrats used the excuses of parenting ability and not having the brains to understand why my child will always be a low achiever. The same thing operates in the classroom, when low expectations is the deciding factor as to what education services will not be given to a student who is struggling in the 3 Rs.

It is all about how one reacts to disappointing results, and the actions, that are formed. I kept my angry in check, and learned in part,  all about the SEC factors being used as the main excuses for low achievement of students.

I must say, I have had no encounters of poor teachers, but teachers that had low expectations of my child. But it is not the fault of the teachers, because the educrats above them who have low expectations of students that follows the SEC factors. In my case, I did not have many letters behind my name, to make any comments on instruction and curriculum. In other words, I had no business in questioning the education policies of the school and the school board.

lot of truth in this

shall recommend to my student teachers and my colleague

thanks

Fairy tails can come true.. it can happen to you…

Nice story, now back to reality.

more like"soft bigotry of low expectations”

I really think this guy has got the central point that; “hurt people hurt people” and that good teaching is about, at the least, not hurting hurt people and, at best, about treating hurt people with dignity and respect.
This is the central principle of the “person-centered” psychotherapy developed by Carl Rogers, generally considered to have been one of the most important psychologists of the twentieth century and the most important psychotherapist after Freud.
The “core conditions” that Rogers calls on us to apply in our work as teachers are:
1) Genuineness - to be who we really are in the situation, and not to hide behind a personal or professional persona. This frees us to be a “real person” who our students can relate to and trust;
2) Acceptance - the ability to respect our pupils as who the human beings that they are even if they are behaving in a way that makes this hard to appreciate and,
3) Empathy - the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, to have some sense of what it must be like to be them.
There’s a summary of Rogers’ educational theory here here and an overview of his life and influence in Wikipedia here here and a short summary of his principles in a philosophical context here