"Society has changed and the schools need to change as well"
That is the problem the schools have changed to conform with society and now the system doesn't work. You have teachers and principals too afraid too do anything incase they get sued.
just yesterday my daughter told me that a girl in her class, pushed her against the wall, told her she didn't come from Australia and tried too get her too hurt another boy in her class and no the girl wasn't Arab she is British and she's only 7. Now the right thing according to society would have been for me too tell her to go and tell the teacher if it happens again, but I didn't because I also know the the only thing the teacher can do is sed the girl to time out, tell the parents and hope they do something about it. Instead I told her to push the girl back say to her " I have better things to do than stand here and talk too you!!" I know this may seem wrong to teach your child to do something like this but too me it also seems wrong that a teacher is pretty much powerless to do anything else than what I have already said regarding the situation. You see teachers not having the power to do more than that doesn't teach a child in my book anything about respect for authority, all it teaches them is that there are no serious ramifications if they break a rule, this also teaches them that there are no real boundaries.
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died....Chad Kroeger
"Society has changed and the schools need to change as well"
That is the problem the schools have changed to conform with society and now the system doesn't work. You have teachers and principals too afraid too do anything incase they get sued.
just yesterday my daughter told me that a girl in her class, pushed her against the wall, told her she didn't come from Australia and tried too get her too hurt another boy in her class and no the girl wasn't Arab she is British and she's only 7. Now the right thing according to society would have been for me too tell her to go and tell the teacher if it happens again, but I didn't because I also know the the only thing the teacher can do is sed the girl to time out, tell the parents and hope they do something about it. Instead I told her to push the girl back say to her " I have better things to do than stand here and talk too you!!" I know this may seem wrong to teach your child to do something like this but too me it also seems wrong that a teacher is pretty much powerless to do anything else than what I have already said regarding the situation. You see teachers not having the power to do more than that doesn't teach a child in my book anything about respect for authority, all it teaches them is that there are no serious ramifications if they break a rule, this also teaches them that there are no real boundaries.
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died....Chad Kroeger