Parent Rage

Princess amazed by "Parent Rage"  

    The Princess Royal commented that she was "’often astonished’ by the physical aggression head teacher encounter from parents."  The princess is commenting of incidences where the head teachers are being the target of verbal abuse from their students parents.  A representative for the head teachers stated that the level of aggression is similar to "road rage". The basis for this form of rage that the Princess witnesses is due to the fact that parents know of their rights but do not know of their responsibilities to their children.  These responsibilities include school work and such related areas.              The Princess realizes that the amount of aggression actions taken out on the head teachers is not increasing.  But she is aware that there is an increasing amount of friction among the parents and the head teachers.  It has been reported that police have been called to parent teacher meetings due to the level of aggression. 

Parents’ Rage Mar Pee Wee Sports

            From the beginning of Little League, Parent Rage has know to exists.  This form of rage involves four  parties, parent, their athlete child, the child’s teammate, and the teammates parents.  in the past theses four parties have been able to act appropriately while being spectators at children’s games.  Doug Abrams, stated that the "number of parents misbehaving while their children are on the playing field has risen fro 5 percent to 15 percent, as the society grows more and more 'sports crazy'". (site) In addition to Abrams, Barry Mano, president of The National Association of Sports Officials in Racine, Wisconsin says that he receives 50-100 reports each year from referees who received physical assaults.  The reports do not include the verbal comments made by parents during the game.  Mano included that it is uncommon to hear of a case where death is the result , but it does happen.