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Respect for Teachers
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Some people take on the profession of teaching because they have a passion for learning and they want to pass on this love to children. There are others who love children and love being with children, then there are others who want to do their bit to help shape the minds of the future. Of course there may be a minority who become teachers solely for earning money, but thankfully this tends to be the exception rather than the rule.
Once upon a time teachers were revered as Gods. Now a day children show less or no respect for their teachers. So what has happened to our society ? There are many theories but one that is evident is that a child’s attitude may reflect the parents’ attitude towards teachers and certainly some parents’ attitude has changed over the years.
Think about it for a moment; if you believe that teachers teach for the sole purpose of serving your child, your child will also feel the same and will believe that he/she is doing the teacher a favour by sitting down to learn. If you believe that your child’s teacher is not qualified enough or not caring or not friendly enough towards you, you may be tempted to make derogatory remarks about the teacher in front of your child. This is turn sends a message to your child that the teacher does not deserve respect.
Sometimes parents keen to make their children more confident, mistakenly urge the children on to become aggressive and argumentative instead. They encourage their child to stand up for themselves and question the teacher if they feel it necessary. These children usually get a lot of attention because they dare to challenge the teacher, they become ring leaders and encourage other children to join forces against the teacher. This is so wrong. The truth of the matter is that teachers like parents have the best interest of their students at heart and the lease they deserve is respect.
If you sow the seeds of your child gaining popularity by rebelling against their teachers they will grow up with inflated egos, believing that the world owes them a living. When they come to the realization that the world doesn’t owe them a living and that they can’t always get what they want they will play the victim passing the blame on someone else
If you want your child to grow up to be confident there are other ways of doing it. Confidence need not come with aggression nor with rebellion and fight for your rights. Your child needs to learn that being rude to teachers or to other students, disrupting class, displaying bad temper is a sign of weakness not strength. If your child feels that they are not being treated fairly by the teacher they should be able to speak to the teacher in private and discuss their concerns. Sometimes teachers may not
realize that they have either made a comment or misjudged a situation that involves the student.
Parents, who sometimes have trouble controlling one or two children, should stop and consider that a teacher who is teaching a class of 30 students has a real challenge on their hands. It is only when parents support teachers with regards to discipline and respect that teachers have a chance of teaching their students the classes that need to be taught. 
Unless you instil a respect for teachers in your child, he/she will never develop a desire to learn. Sometimes by the time a child understands the importance of respect for teachers it is too late and he/she looks back at the wasted years with regret.
Don’t let this happen to your child, realize that by teaching him/her to respect his/her teachers you will be putting him/her on the right path to success in their school years.