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日政府推小冊子 教老師應付「怪獸父母」
(明報)2010年3月24日 星期三 05:10
【明報專訊】日本 近年出現不少常向教師投訴及抱怨的「怪獸父母」（monster parents），他們蠻不講理，要求多多，處處干涉學校政策，令教師精神壓力大增，甚至因此要辭職或自殺。日本東京 市政府最近決定推出小冊子，教導教師如何應付「怪獸父母」。
法新社報道，東京市政府花費1000萬日圓 （約86萬港元），於本月底向市內逾6萬名公立學校教師及職工，派發應付「怪獸父母」的小冊子，協助教師在不同事態中應對、提供解決問題的方案。一名東京小學教師提及家長投訴時說﹕「他們實在有太多投訴，有母親早上7時半來電，不斷嘮叨了兩小時。有天早上，她問我『為何要讓我的孩子在眾人面前演講？他不喜歡演講。』他們只看重自己的孩子，要求教師對他們的孩子特別重視。」
學者：教育變生意 家長就是神
日本教育評論家尾木直樹認為，出現「怪獸父母」現象，因日本教育界在本世紀初引入商業原則——日本許多地區現已讓家長自行為子女揀選學校，而不是根據居住區域分配，加上日本出生率低，以致學校爭奪學生，令「教育成了營銷買賣」。他說﹕「在百貨公司，顧客就是『神』，買家有絕對優勢，而在學校，家長就是買家。」
日本宮內廳早前稱，皇太子德仁的8歲女兒愛子，疑在學校因被多名男同學「粗暴對待」，感到極度不安，本月初開始幾乎無法上學。但事後有雜誌卻質疑，愛子母親雅子透過宮內廳透露學校問題的做法是否「過了火」，還問「雅子妃是否怪獸媽媽？」
家長要求學校洗校服剪指甲
尾木蒐集了700多個「怪獸父母」案例。他發現有家長要求教師每早到學生家接學生上學，有教師被要求每天查看天氣預報，告訴學生明天是否需要帶傘；有學生母親要求教師在學校旅行當天替其孩子帶午餐。有母親的孩子被指打破學校窗戶，母親為了解事件而向公司請假，後來要求學校賠償其工資損失。有學校更被要求為學生洗運動服、剪指甲，以及因有某一學生在校刊中沒出現在多張照片中，而要重編校刊。
日本政府資料顯示，教師因精神壓力而缺課，過去10年升逾3倍，佔請病假教師的63%。逾2.6萬東京教師為自己買保險，避免捲入法律訴訟，是10 年前一倍。部分受壓教師更自殺。曾有幼兒園教師抵受不了一名家長連續4個月投訴，留下遺書稱失去自尊，自殺身亡。
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聲帶:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwghabw4N80&feature=related
事情起因: This is the message that the Maroochydore High School Queensland , staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine . This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children’s absences and missing homework. The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children’s failing grades changed to passing grades – even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the semester and did not complete enough school work to pass their classes, and put this on the answerphone.
聲帶內部: The outgoing message:
Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, please listen to all the options before making a selection:
To lie about why your child is absent – Press 1
To make excuses for why your child did not do his work – Press 2
To complain about what we do – Press 3
To swear at staff members – Press 4
To ask why you didn’t get information that was already enclosed in your
newsletter and several flyers mailed to you – Press 5
If you want us to raise your child – Press 6
If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone – Press 7
To request another teacher, for the third time this year – Press 8
To complain about bus transportation – Press 9
To complain about school lunches – Press 0
If you realize this is the real world and your child must be accountable
and responsible for his/her own behaviour, class work, homework and that
it’s not the teachers’ fault for your child’s lack of effort: Hang up and
have a nice day!
If you want this in another language, move to a country that speaks it.
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