I would make a damn good teacher, but my a** would probably be fired before the first day was over.
When a student acts out, the teacher/principal is blamed. But it's not a parenting problem, OHH NOES! It's definitely the teacher's fault that the PARENT didn't teach their kid to behave.
NEWS FLASH! Teachers are not nannies. They are not babysitters. They are not maids. They are not your child's parent. It really isn't their responsibility to teach your kid to respect authority.
But in the same breath, it is the teacher's responsibility to keep the students in line. Good parenting would make the teachers' jobs a hell of a lot easier, but that's in a perfect world. Not that I'm defending every teacher on the planet because I know there are a lot of shitty ones out there.
A lot of it is the people in charge of the school systems. Nobody is allowed to punish naughty kids. Back when my grandmother was in school, they got taken out to the back of the schoolhouse and whipped for misbehaving. THEN they got it again from Mom or Dad when they got home. And parents didn't use their bare hands, they used the good 'ole razor strap. That's why kids back in the day were well mannered and few of them dared to disrespect their elders. They didn't get away with s**t. My grandmother and great uncles are the most honest and hard-working people I know, and they definitely got their share of harsh punishment when they were kids.
Nowadays, spanking is taboo. Everybody starts screaming "CHILD ABUSE!" and it practically makes headlines when a child is punished.
Spanking is nothing compared to what it was like in the old days. It's a far cry from abuse and I can guarantee you that kids today would be a lot better off if their parents weren't afraid to reprimand them. I don't want to hear your liberal bullshit about how spanking scars kids. If that was true, I'd be institutionalized right now.
School officials need to grow some gonads and learn to punish the little bastards. I bet the kids would thank them for it a decade down the road.
 Doll With A Knife · Fri Feb 05, 2010 @ 02:02am · 0 Comments |
