A panel discussion on HLN about our failing schools revealed how overbearing parents are keeping many school students from learning well. Apparently so-called “helicopter parents” are bullying teachers, threatening teachers with bodily harm, and trying to get the teachers fired if their children don’t get straight A’s. And if the kids’ grades ever go down, the teachers get blamed, rather than the students, so the students learn to get lazy and over-entitled.
Now, the teachers were the one saying this, and they said this behavior from parents like this is ruining their children’s chance at getting a good education or learning important life lessons such as the fact that actions have consequences, and that it’s become a really big problem lately.
So I propose a new term for parents like this: “Attack Helicopter Parents”. And seeing as how they are reportedly not only overbearing, but also threatening and violently obsessive, I really think this new term is necessary for its additional descriptiveness, and in this way, teachers and school administrators can quickly and easily warn each other about prospectively threatening parents without having to refer to them by name or explain further what to expect.
So I propose a new term for parents like this: “Attack Helicopter Parents”. And seeing as how they are reportedly not only overbearing, but also threatening and violently obsessive, I really think this new term is necessary for its additional descriptiveness, and in this way, teachers and school administrators can quickly and easily warn each other about prospectively threatening parents without having to refer to them by name or explain further what to expect.
