SINGAPORE - Parents who escalate school issues unnecessarily and overstep boundaries with teachers are a minority, but they waste time and divert resources away from the wider school community, said Education Minister Chan Chun Sing.
Frank chat about parents, teachers and children: Education Minister Chan Chun Sing , the guest on The Usual Place podcast, flanked by host and ST correspondent Natasha Ann Zachariah and special co-host and ST editor Jaime Ho.
Bypassing the school's leadership, and instead getting a minister to bring pressure on the school, is something that Mr Chan said he "cannot tolerate". Official channels such as e-mail and office numbers should be used when contacting parents, and teachers should respond to work-related messages after school hours only in the event of emergencies, he said.Parents should see themselves as partners with their child's teachers, said Mr Chan, rather than assume a transactional relationship with expectations and demands, as they would with a service provider.
However, while it may not be a "big problem" here, Mr Chan said he wanted to make sure the situation does not grow "because this kind of thing is quite insidious".
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