[BlueTemplar]

(School)teachers used to have that kind of social status, not even a hundred years ago. It would be interesting to understand how that changed into the current situation (up to the worst case of the parents calling out for the lynching of a teacher).

[em-bee]

going out on a whim here, i think it is lack of trust. in the past teachers and students came from the same community, so everyone knew each other, and had the same beliefs. but now school is more distant and the education curriculum sometimes no longer reflects what parents expect. just look at the popularity of homeschooling. "we have to send our children to that school because the government demands it (and we can't afford homeschooling), not because we think that this is a good school."