In Japan, teachers make home visits and work together with the parents in raising the child. If I skipped school, or got in trouble during school hours, the first place the police would take me would be to the teacher. The teacher would chew me out first, and then take me home after school and my parents would chew me out. That is how things were in my youth. In the states, things are a bit different.
Teachers are among the lowest paid professionals and one of the least respected.
They are often held accountable for not being able to teach that which the parents couldn t at home. They are the ones that take the blame for all sorts of social problems that children face each day. The divorce rate for teachers is now among the highest in any profession. Here in the Rose City, as in most other communities across the country, teachers are among the most dedicated people I have had the honor to know. They do a thankless job.