Developing Positive Parent/Teacher Relationships

Abstract

“From the ideal point of view, parents and teachers have much in common, in that both, supposedly wish things to occur for the best interest of the child; but in fact, parents and teachers usually live in a condition of mutual distrust and enmity. Both wish the child well, but it is such a different kind of well that conflict must inevitably arrive over it. ... The fact seems to be that parents and teachers are natural enemies, predestined each for the disconfiture of the other (Waller, 1968, p. 68).”