Students and Parents Who Don't Care

Harvey Craft wrote an article on suite101.com about how difficult it is to teach students who do not care about education.  It seems that the problem is worse when the parents of these students do not care either.  The students are unmotivated and the parents are doing nothing to help.  It is difficult for teacher to stay motivated to teach when parents do not support the teachers.  Changing a person's attitude (student or parent) is very difficult for a teacher alone.  I believe this is what frustrates teachers the most and causes them to stop caring.