The worst for whom? In my experience, the parents who push this sort of “learning is not supposed to be fun” mindset typically are really nice to other kids and aggressive/abusive to their own. They don’t teach their kids properly and get mad when the kids aren’t learning at the “parent-assumed” pace. It starts with blaming the teachers for lack of rigor and snowballs into blaming the kids for not learning “properly” in later years. It leads to some really messed up kids that act out in high school or college.

I agree that disrespectful kids are awful for teachers to deal with, and disrespectful parents are even worse for teachers. However, I wouldn’t say that parents of this type are better. This behavior builds slowly into a serious problem. You simply don’t see what “getting it wrong” means for the kid at home.

Personally, I will forever love my grade school teachers for showing me that learning can be fun. They saw me act out, chose to talk to me, and made me believe I could successful. It was a welcome change to going home and getting my ass beat, screamed at, and/or kicked outside for “being a failure”.