aplusmnt said:TSR said:Red Robin said:Schools have kids 1/3 of the time, they sleep 1/3 of the time and parents have them 1/3 of the time. Schools deserve some of the blame as well as the parents.
RR If a child gets up on a school day and comes to school ready to learn (they haven't had to put up with drug dealing,parental arguments, nothing to eat the night before, andthe list goes on and on......) then they will learn that day with respect to their own academic ability providing they don't have a disability of some sort. The 1/3 of the time at home that you refer to MOST of the time will override the other 1/3 at school because of the reasons I have cited above. JMHO
I really do not think that most kids have all the problems you listed. Probably a very low percentage. Not many kids have not eaten the night before. Welfare and food stamps is to easy to get.
I would say there is a larger group of problems with the kids today, that being the time and effort spent to raise them properly.
School officials would also like to put all the blame off on the parents but they to have to accept some responsibility for the way the kids act in their classes. Some teachers can keep control and some can not. Kind of like being a nurse, if you do not like people and you have a short fuse maybe you should not be a nurse or a teacher.
I stand by what I said "If a child comes to school ready to learn they will learn ". The problems a lot of kids have at home is not readily apparent to the average person. I also never said kids have all the problems I listed but I've been around enough of them to know that the percentage with problems is greater than what you or I might think. I would agree that parents not spending the time to raise them properly is a major problem. Yes school officials have to accept SOME responsibility for the way the kids act BUT the major resposibility still falls on the shoulders of the parents-this follows the preceeding statement regarding raising them properly.
Welfare and food stamps are easy to get??? Food stamps maybe, but in our state welfare is not as easy to get as you might think.
There will always be differing personalities in teachers just like there will be in the work place or society. At our last class reunion our class president of thirty yrs ago (who was at the time the superintendent of the school system) asked everyone present who their favorite teacher was and guess what, every teacher in the school was named by their former students. It would be the same way with all of us here at Ranchers net if we were at a meeting we would all leave with different impressions of each other. Its necessary to learn how to get along with different personalities -a valuable social skill IMO. O well i've ranted enough.