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Teacher’s Rant About Parents’ ‘Bizarrely Lenient Attitude Toward Disciplining Children’ Goes Viral

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Today's parents don't trust teachers when they discipline students, she says.

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It’s the end of the school year, so you can’t blame teachers for being a little burnt out. But Erin Weigle Axson, a middle school reading and writing teacher in Orangeburg, South Carolina, is suffering from a bit more than the average end-of-year exhaustion. “This school year has left.

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