What are we teaching our children?
October 7th 2006 00:20
Is this some kind of joke? Are these people sick? This current generation of leaders must have lost the plot where the raising of children are concerned. I am not that old but I know bull when I hear it being spouted. What has started in the good ol' US of A has become a worldwide phenomena, and of which I am referring to the non corporal punishment of our children and not only that there are others who have taken it a step further. Let me start with corporal punishment. I have absolutely no problem with giving my own child a clip behind the ear if I believe that all other options have failed. Have people forgotten the biblical (gasp! shock! horror! he's not bringing religion into this is he?) principle of "spare the rod and spoil the child? Some may say that there are better ways of dealing with children like talking to them politely and asking them to behave. Okay fine, it may (operative word may) work the first time but when the child does it the third fourth fifth time and you keep talking and the child doesn't listen. You know what that tells the child "Hey this is great! I can do all of this cool stuff like beating on other kids and burning down the house and all mommy can say is 'Now son you've been very bad.' " Does anybody really think that kids are so stupid that they're not actually going to pick up on the fact that parents can't even discpline their own children without authorities getting involved? There's something parents want hanging over their heads, their own children threatening them to take them to the police over something parents, in my mind, should have the authority to do. It will get to the stage where parents won't even be able to scowl at their children because someone may fear it might damage them permanently.
Speaking of that lets go from the ridiculous to the sublime. In the same country that says it's the leader of the free world, teachers cannot even use a red pen to mark tests because some person said it would do damage to the child's esteem. Where do these people come from? Straight from the school of Dr. Spock who has probably done more to in terms of making a mess of parenting than anyone else. The whole red pen issue makes no difference because the grade is still going to be the same. I wouldn't be surprised if one day the purple pen which I believe is now the pen of choice to mark papers will one day become the "red pen" of the future.
Now my real pet peeve is set for the lady in England who wanted teachers to stop telling students they've failed and become politically correct and say some along the lines of "almost pass" so they can feel better about themselves. My dear, failure is failure. If you get less than 50% on any standard test you've failed. Period. I have to ask what happens when these poor hapless students who don't know "failure" as such go out into the real world? Who is going to shield them from this new experience? When they get to University are they going to be told the same thing? No they won't! Lets start to teach our children the facts like life is a struggle and you will fail at times. Life is about finding inner strength and courage in the face of adversity, and the way things are headed we are going to turn out a society of people who are going to be fundamentally weak and not prepared for the realities of life. May God help us all.
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