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Originally Posted by kwillia I believe that parents are completely responsible for raising their children to have personal accountability for themselves. Parents think they are doing their children a benefit by continuously taking on their children’s everyday jobs such as waking by a certain time in the morning or making sure they are on time for the bus or constantly reminding them of assignments due or having to continuously intervene in school to mediate between their child and his/her teachers. In reality, parents are robbing their children of the ability to learn personal responsibility.
A teacher’s job is to mentor and offer guidance in learning a specific subject (or subjects in the case of elementary grades). At the beginning of each school year, a teacher clearly presents expectations and goals for the class. During the year, the teacher gives instruction and assignments. A teacher is not responsible for whether or not a student bothers to pay attention to the instruction or whether the student bothers to do the assignments. That responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of the student. The parents are responsible for raising their child to know it is his/her job. |
Agreed, but the parents are also the ones who are responsible for busting the kids azz if they drop the ball. The teacher should let the parents know if something is wrong, but if the discipline doesn't come from the parents it will never work.
I can't stand the parents who consider in-school suspension to be adequate. They are just passing their parenting job off to the school, instead of taking responsibility for their own demon spawn.