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Friday, May 20, 2005
Don't Read The Newspaper
As a person with a bad heart and high blood pressure, I should really cancel my newspaper subscription because once in a while I actually read the thing and I always get mad. Today was no exception.
The most annoying article was about the fact that so many little kids get kicked out of preschool for extremely awful behavior. As usual teachers were blamed. If those teachers weren't so pathetic, the kids would behave. Oh, my. What kind of bad behavior was mentioned? Well, you'd think the article was about inmates at an asylum for the criminally insane...sexual assaults, arson, assaults with deadly weapons, drug sales, attempted homicide, theft, etc., etc. I don't even want to know how a preschool child can commit a sexual assault. Now, while it might be true that children generally behave better when they have a really interesting teacher, I fail to see how a poor teacher can be the cause of this crime wave. It's all just too violent and crazy. Yes, if the teacher's boring, the kids might throw spitwads and pass notes, but commit arson? There has to be some kind of bad little kid virus going around.
Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 2:15 PM
Name:
Tessa
That is unbelievable and quite dreadful. The fault must lie with the parents (or parent) - they are the ones responsible for instilling the basic rules for behaviour, and for socializing with others, in their children. Unfortunately, there are so many one-parent families today. Mothers are forced to go work and, when they are home, they probably use the television (if they have one!) as a child-minder. Consequently, children watch inappropriate content, don't learn how to converse properly or how to interact with others and the path to delinquency is set. Then the parent expects the school to put everything right!
Teachers cannot be expected to 'raise' children or to teach them basics like how to use the toilet or blow their noses. That is not their job, they have enough to do supervising children's school activities and trying to teach them how to hold a pencil!
Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 6:39 PM
Name:
doubledog
Amen, Amen! You're preaching to the choir, here!
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