So should teachers. Nothing magic is going to happen in this society to suddenly change the way some people treat their kids. It's a heavy burden that teachers historically have prided themselves on bearing. Now, it seems, it has become an albatross about the necks of young teachers on the make, eager to break into school management where the money is, and older teachers slogging along to retirement in classrooms full of too many kids they despise. A mark of true professionalism is taking clients as they come and doing for them the best that can possibly be done, regardless of how or why they arrive in the shape they are in.
Kids are teachers' clients.