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Can I get an amen from the choir on that one? 95% of the difficulties my students have is due to their parental units. You know we spend so much time teaching these kids how to read, math, grammar, science, history and test them to death over it but the most imporant job with the most long reaching affects to society as a whole any human being has is being a parent. Do we teach that? No, we assume the parents are teaching this but when looking at the rate teenage pregancy, crime, drop-out rate, mental health system, illiteracy, poverty, etc, etc proves that our children are not taught the basic fundementals of being an adult raising a healthy, well adjusted child. Do not get me wrong, I expect my students to learn to read, math, history, science, etc but I also try to teach them how to be functioning individuals in society, because if we as educators do not step up and teach them who in the h3ll is going to?
Oops sorry I will step down off my soap box now.
Amen! I totally agree, people do not care these days about manners. I would like to commend Teach though on his son's they have some of the best manners I have seen a long time on young gentlemen such as Teachs' boys.
I worked as a substitute teacher for several years at the little country school my kids attended. I could NOT believe the behavior issues THAT THE PARENTS HAD!!! No wonder the kids didn't know how to behave! I learned real quick that I didn't have the patience to be a teacher. I also understood why my girls' teachers tended to brag on how well the girls behaved! If my girls got in trouble at school, you can BET they got in trouble again at home (spanking was definitely an option.) The other kids would get in trouble at school, and their parents would be up there hollering that their kids could do no wrong, and how DARE the school discipline their little angels! (I have a son in law like that - his youngest daughter is the devil in disguise, and it's everybody else's fault when she throws chairs at the teacher!)