News relating to Scooling in a Democratic Society.
Over the past week I have noticed several articles about children and teachers. Some of these teachers are held responsible for teaching and engaging students to their full potential. In one of these articles the mom is arrested for injecting her teenagers with heroin before school. Are you serious? And this is a prime example of why it's hard to engage students in school when their parental influence is the defeating team. They are the ones who are supposed to be supporting the children in the best way possible, not by injecting and condoning drug use. But what happens when students accuse their teacher of doing something wrong for example, sexual harassment to drug abuse? I did not know this but they are sent to a "rubber room" where they sit and collect paychecks. It's somewhere they have to go and wait until the investigation or court proceedings are over. I also wanted to comment about the school shooting of a student directed at their classmate. What parents have a gun just laying around for their child to pick up and bring to school? I mean come on now! Just some news I thought was interesting and that I thought related to our topics and lectures covered in class. Also in the news was a teacher who was accused of sleeping with fellow students of hers. Quite interesting this is coming after a year of silence. But still it's an important issue.
good points Ariel,
ReplyDeleteI have thought back to my own experience of working in a school for the past seven years and many times have questioned the same idea. Aren't the teachers/paraprofessionals and parents all supposed to work for one another and a common goal, not against one another? When it comes down to it, the student is the one who loses. Issues that are so simple as in providing a decent breakfast, or similar homework schedules routinely and set bedtimes, things like that. As the students grow and mature, it wont take them long to realize if their education and well being isn't important to their own parents it wont be to them for very long either.
Ariel, I read the article you linked to your post about the boy who brought the gun to school, and it makes me so angry! This child who is only 9 years old should not ne in jail for this. I feel the parents, especially the mother, should be the one in jail. I understand the boy did greatly injure the young girl, but it's not like he took the gun out and shot her on purpose, it was an accident. It is the mother's fault for leaving the gun out cocked and without the safety on knowing her son would be there. It should be the mother who is being punished.
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