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Does raise an interesting question, though: Is it the teachers' or the parents' responsibility to teach manners to a child? Isn't this something that you'd pick
by MonkeyClub 4y ago
Does raise an interesting question, though: Is it the teachers' or the parents' responsibility to teach manners to a child? Isn't this something that you'd pick up at home first, before ever stepping a foot into an institutionalized pedagogical setting?
Perhaps instead of suing the entire school district, GP should rather sue the parents of the offending child? /s
To remove the tongue from the cheek, though, and provide some anecdata in the same breath, let me say that I have a number of close friends who are teachers; their constant complaint is that the children reach school already too spoiled (in the rude and egocentric sense). Which apparently gets worse every year.
It's easier to make a case for a society-wide pandemic of negligent upbringing by parents who - goes without saying - are under-educated in child rearing, lack the traditional support networks ("it takes a village to raise a child") and generally overburdened by life's other demands. The children then get passed over to underpaid and overworked teachers (and overflowing classrooms), where the egos of the little cute monsters clash, occasionally loudly and physically, more frequently in passive-aggressive, bullyish manners.
But yeah, "back in mah day..."
- gabereiser 4y ago100% the parents… teachers can influence but it’s the parents legal responsibility to not raise a monster.
- blooalien 4y agoLegal, ethical, and moral responsibility…
- scotty79 4y agoIt's schools responsibility to ensure safety. If you are forcing a person to interact daily with bad people the least you should do is ensure that those bad people won't hurt this person.
- Nomentatus 4y agoAn old guy's perspective: It's not this or that lesson or parental intent that matters, it's the sheer amount of one-on-one interaction with the parent(s), that matters most. IIRC, that's about twenty minutes a week for most kids. Nomads (See the book The Old Way by Elizabeth Marshal Thomas) don't have the same behavior problems at all; but the kids are getting an incredibly high amount of one on one interactions with their parents (mother in particular, while gathering, say berries, with them.)
- MonkeyClub 4y agoI think you're spot on with this. Contact affects manners, and also gives opportunity for bad manners to be weeded out early. Definitely not something that twenty minutes a day is enough for. And perhaps such a lack not only allows for bad patterns to emerge and fester, but also traumatizes the child. Modern city life, and its discontents, I guess.