What do you think? Are the teachers to blame for these out-of-control students?
8-Year-Old Slashes Classmate & Parents Have Nerve to Blame Teachers
Parents
have always been concerned about their kids getting to school safely,
but it looks like the worry shouldn't end at the front doors.
An 8-year-old student from the Bronx is accused of slashing a 9-year-old classmate in the neck with a double-edge razor.
The fight went down during recess where the kids were arguing in the play yard. The younger of the two whipped out the weapon and cut the other one, who was rushed to the hospital, stitched up, and released.
How scary is that?! Rough high schools are one thing but this is ridiculous. It's like Lean on Me for the Elmo-adoring set. But as disturbing as it is to picture this half-pint playing Freddy Krueger, I find it even more shocking that school parents are BLAMING THE TEACHERS for the violence.
Many say classes are overrun with "problem children" because the administration is not strict enough when it comes to discipline. (I should note that this school has a history of behavioral issues. The students are so bad, the principal canceled the fifth grade graduation ceremony.)
Now, I could be wrong, but I seriously doubt the teachers are arming them with shanks and encouraging a round of The Hunger Games near the swing set. It's not reading, writing, and assault with a deadly weapon.
The problems these students have began long before they landed in those classrooms. Violence is a learned behavior and most kids learn it in their homes or from those closest to them. That means it's the parents' job to teach them right and wrong, to respect the lives of others, and how to resolve differences without violence. Of course teachers should reinforce those life lessons, but is it really fair to make it their job to curb anti-social or homicidal tendencies?
Now, I do think kids can pick up bad habits at school, but a willingness to literally cut another student's throat is beyond that. It’s ultimately the parents responsibility to shape them into good, decent people.
What do you think? Are the teachers to blame for these out-of-control students?
It really frustrates me that parents want to place the blame on someone else. The teachers are there to TEACH, not to play babysitter although some parents use them as one. Those parents that are blaming the teachers really need to take a look at themselves and their home environment and see what exactly they're teaching their own children.
GEEZ.....If it were the teachers' fault, wouldn't the whole playground be armed??? Wake up parents! This stuff is learned at home. It's the result of 4 year olds playing violent video games, parents cussing, drinking and trash-talking other adults in front of the kids. If your kid is never taught, and shown how to live in a world of respect and accountability, they'll never learn how to practice it. It's such a shame that it seems as though procreating is an assumed part of the 'growing process'. .....if you don't want the hard, nasty, tough job of being a Mom or a Dad, consider your birth control options, please!!
The parent's are to blame. They just use the teachers to blame for their own poor parenting.
I work in a middle school and I can honestly say....NO THE TEACHERS ARE NOT TO BLAME! Of the disrespectful out of control kids that attend my school...it's the home environment that allows them to think it is acceptable to act that way.
It's the poor faculties issue and they have to suddenly become disciplinaries and parents untop of doing their jobs...These issues are not going away. Every new class of 6th graders get worse and worse for us.
I also want to add, the schools *most* have their hands tied as to how much discipline they can administer...so how is their fault?
I think it depends... here it seems like the kid had some issues and without some psych evaluation I can't say one way or another. I'd need more info like did the parents know of behavioral issues and not address the school or did the school know about it or did either party of address any issues what so ever. but I will say this I think we have taken a lot away from what a school can and cannot do. Schools are terrified of getting in trouble these days- I mean teachers can't address certain behaviors because of the fear of backlash they might get. I do know that my autistic son has been bullied to where he was bleeding one day, when asked was anyone watching... I was told (laughed at) Ma'am we have so many kids and only two teachers on watch during break! So, I think a little blam could be spread out is somethings but the above story I would need much more info before I could point fingers any where.
I agree that the school are too lenient with their discipline nowadays. Basically, they have control over disciplining your children while they are there. This past yr, my daughter's teacher was like the tattle tale I never wanted. My daughter was crumbling an eraser in class, she talks too much, she was laughing loudly at lunch.....she wasted paper. I was bout to burst before the school yr ended.
I agree that discipline starts at the parents. However, if your childs friends' parents don't do their job, then their child is influencing yours. The teachers/school officials are NOT expected TO DO PARENTS' JOB of complete disciplining. However, as stated above, they are in charge of discipline while they are in school.
He is not unjust...Hebrews 6:10
- Cafe Amber
on Jun. 14, 2012 at 5:23 AM