Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Bad Kids
My mother is a first grade teacher and has been for about twenty years. Over the course of her career she has said time and time again that the kids today behave a lot differently than they did when she first started teaching. The kids have a harder time paying attention and listening to rules and directions. My mom finds that the kids now get in trouble more. They aren't afraid to get their name written on the board to stay in from recess. I think that this problem has a lot to do with the parents. Parents just don't seem to care about what their kids are doing in school or how they are behaving. They also don't disapline their kids like they used to even when I was growing up. Punishment is not an option in a lot of homes. I think that that is terrible because it is not the teachers job to babysit the kids! The students should come to class prepared to learn and try their hardest to behave throughout the day so that the teacher can do his or her job. So much time is wasted punishing kids.
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I agree with this fact that teachers are not babysitters. Students have a lack of respect now a days that I would have never thought about giving my teachers in the past. I guess this does have alot to do with the values that my parents taught me growing up. Parents need to talk to their students and make sure they have the kids on tasks when it comes to going to school and doing what they are their to do ....learn!!
ReplyDeleteI agree. Parents aren't as strict as they used to be. The other day when i was at work (pop's ice cream shop) this mom came in with her 2 sons and her one son wanted a giant pixie stick along with his cup of ice cream. the mom said when he eats all of his ice cream he can have it; well he didn't like that idea and picked up his water bottle and throw it on the ground, then his brothers water bottle, and the persisted to also throw his ice cream. Not once did the mom say anything she just continued to eat her ice cream (i had to pick everything up). Then when he asked for a pixie stick the mom said no and he said " give me a pixie stick or i'll kill you"!!! and what does she do, gives him a pixie stick. Parents are reinforcing their child's bad behavior by giving them what they want. I think thats why teachers have such a hard time getting students to listen because when they go home the parents reinforce their negative behavior so students expect that from teachers too.
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