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I agree with Sheila
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I was reading this post and just had to comment. While I know several wonderful teachers without children of their own, It has been my experience that the teachers in my school with school age children certainly have greater
understanding of what goes on at home with children.
In my experience our teachers w/o kids are more likely to:
assign more frequent and greater amounts of homework
be less knowledgeable that children learn at different rates, thus being punitive to children who don't learn concepts (eg multiplication tables) at the same rate as others in the classroom.
try to hammer the

square peg students into the round holes

Also, I have found that teachers w/o kids are more likely to gripe about parents no matter what their socio-economic status.

That is not to say that all teachers w/o kids do this. I know some very progressive teachers (in other schools) who are wonderful. It is just not that way at my school. I sit in the lunchroom and listen to the way these teachers talk about their students, their students parents, and I cringe.

They talk about the parents who "hang out" at school and walk their daughters to class. They criticize parents who want to have confences with them.