Why,now-a-days teachers are losing their previous status and dignity in the society and among the students?

Question

Why,now-a-days teachers are losing their previous status and dignity in the society and among the students?

Answer 1

Great question!

It seems that, in American society at least, there has been a consistent breakdown of civic and familial social standards for the past forty years or so.

Among other major institutions affected, education in general, and teachers in particular are easy targets for finger-pointing when trying to explain the moral deprivation associated with such a comprehensive breakdown of accountability and responsibility.

The major institutions of marriage and family, government, business, religion, and social services have all failed to uphold their end of the civic and social contract needed to ensure safety and prosperity for all 304 million Americans. ... without such commitments, the result is many American students enter schools each day burdened with a complexity of social ills that -previously- had been attended to by those various institutions -but now are not.  

The result is teachers faced with too many students -too often- who simply are not primed for learning; instead, these students are primed for acting out, for maladaptive behavior, for using the school and classroom as their personal punching bag for the failures of their mothers and fathers, the failures of their immediate and extended families, the failures of their community, the failures of their religious leaders, the failures of their government, and the collective failures of the support systems a civic and democratic society should have in place but doesn't.  That's what teachers are confronted with every day.

As such, teachers -who studied and trained to instruct, to transfer knowledge and skills, to attend to the growth and development of children from an educational perspective are compelled, instead, to be surrogate parents, counselors,  therapists, policemen and policewomen, confidants, ministers, social workers -and even medical professionals ... at the drop-of-a-hat, every day!  The fact of the matter is they can't do that -it is an impossible task.

Then, as absurd as that is, for failing at an "impossible task" teachers are blamed, ridiculed, offered as sacrifical lambs for all that is wrong with society ... and because teachers cannot reframe the argument (because they have little or no voice), they get hung out alone -as a profession- to bear the brunt of the general collapse of America's moral responsibility to its citizens.

Along with such an "impossible task" teachers subsequently lose status and dignity -through no fault of their own.

Answer 2

that's a really serious qts....

the fault lies on both sides... teachers dont give in their best somehow n rely more on the students to go for external help classes n stuff

whwreas students are so advanced n free thinking that they always seem 2 think dat they know way more than the teacher... they hardly bother to respect or even obey the teacher.. i think thats y things are going wrong

Answer 3

because the parents often don't show teachers respect kids assume that type of behavior is OK. I thing in general there is a deteriorating respect for others throughout society, at least in the U.S.. Every one is so self involved.

Answer 4

TEACHERS OUGHT TO BE THE MODELS WHOM STUDENTS LOOK UPTO.BUT SADLY  we find teachers concerned abt rivalry at work place,higher paycheques,a casual kind of an attitude,with least value for commitment.hence children view them as just some people who cut across their lives thats all.it is not that kind of respect of a guru that is prevelant now a days.mostly teachers are to be blamed for that position they occupy in the society now

Answer 5

i think there are many reasons for it

1. the parents may not give much respect when they talk about teachers in their family before kids.

2. the pictures and jokes that are coming in the media about teachers playt their role in it.

3.teachers should not have any doubt in the subjects they teach. they must be very perfect with the subject they are teaching and they should not reprimand and scold children unnecessarily which happens in many schools. they should be treated as friends.  teachers should not behave as if they no every thing in the world and the other kids are very ignorant and have no right to discuss with them.

most of the teachers think that the students are arguing with them and questioning them.. but they dont understand that the child is trying to discuss with them and is trying to get his doubts clarified.

Answer 6

There are three reasons behind this fact. Firstly, they are losing their dignity because of  politics .When the children of politicians have to make their unfair demands acceptable,they have nothing to do with dignity of teachers .Secondly, they have lost their status because of television .For example, by watching television, students  learn new ways of cheating and disobeying teachers through violent films and dramas. Thirdly because of internet. Internet in the way, it has replaced teachers; i.e.internet is the substitute for teachers. Most of the students study and solve their problems through internet. Internet is not something to be respected and thus they do not have habit of respecting. Thus, it can be assumed that, nowadays, these three factors are the causes of low respect for teachers.