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They are probably bad developments, as much as we want to pretend kids are strong minded independent learners, the reality is they are kids and need guidance an
by fullshark 3y ago
They are probably bad developments, as much as we want to pretend kids are strong minded independent learners, the reality is they are kids and need guidance and a teacher to instill discipline.
This is something we've known for millennia that we want to pretend isn't true because it's more convenient to ignore, also because of our obsession with venerating youth culturally.
- bluedino 3y agoWe've removed more and more rules from every aspect of society and suffered because of it. It does seem like things are starting to reverse though
- actionfromafar 3y agoThis is a complaint going back to Aristotle, almost verbatim.
- alpaca128 3y agoBased on my experience the first problem there is that many teachers are incapable of providing guidance or enforcing discipline. And that's assuming the teacher still cares, which isn't guaranteed either. And with teachers having to deal with bad pay and crazy parents thinking it's the teacher's job to raise their kid that's not surprising. Kids not going to school is a symptom, and it's not going to be solved with attempts to make school more attractive without actually changing anything.
- bombcar 3y agoEven the teachers that care are no longer (in many cases) backed up by the school and (more importantly) the parents. Everyone in my high school didn't really care too much about taking a detention (it was annoying) but would work pretty studiously to avoid anything being sent home to the parents.