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Originally Posted by Nebe
I think the best way to handle kids is to make thier parents held accountable..If a kid steals a car and totals it, the parents should pay for it...not the insurance co.
If parents knew THEY had something to loose by thier looser kids, I guarantee reform schools would be busting at the seams and sales in video game consoles would plummet
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As a teacher I can tell you the lack of parenting that happens in this day of broken homes and out of wedlock child bearing is absolutely frightening. Add to that the consumptive spoiling heaped on the other kids by their overcompensating parents and we have a generation of amoral sociopaths and entitled kids who have no idea how to behave respectfully or appropriately, much less feel empathy for someone else.
I agree with Eben- until parents are forced to bear the consequences of their parenting methods they will continue to blame the schools and everyone else for their child’s behavior. MAKE them pay for what the child destroys. MAKE them spend a morning in Saturday school when their child tells the teacher to F-off. MAKE them miss work to come take their child out of school when they bully another child. MAKE them take parenting courses after their child has been in trouble repeatedly. MAKE THEM ACCOUNTABLE.
We teachers try, but we can’t raise your kids in the 1 hour a day they spend in our classrooms.
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