How to raise Backyard Chickens: [CHICKENS-101] Education OT Attn. Cathryn

I agree with your assessment totally, but put somewhat more blame on the parents who - from birth - did not feed their children properly or discipline them adequately. There are too many parents who are not adults themselves, too many parents who view parenthood as a part time activity, too many parents who want to be their kids' best friends, too many parents whose own ego and aspirations are on their children's shoulders so that they can't imagine their child is not perfect and won't allow them to be disciplined.

Too much emphasis on Dr. Spock (who RUINED parenthood and wasn't even very good at it himself!) and self esteem experts' advice. They should all be sentenced to life in one of today's classrooms so they can see what their "sage advice" has created.

The educational system is to blame because they have listened to the government and the lawyers rather than the educators. Too many unfunded mandates, paperwork, and limitations from the government. School boards and administrations who listen to lawyers first and teachers not at all. Too many administrators and too few teachers, thanks to administrators tending to think they need more of "them" and less guff from teachers, and too much government interference and paperwork causing a need for more useless administrators.

My 2 kids aren't perfect, Lord knows, and have gotten into their share of trouble - although unruliness at school or anywhere else was NEVER part of their crimes. Coming from a family of educators, they KNOW how to behave in school and can understand the disruption other students cause. When my daughter was a freshman in high school her English teacher was a first-year teacher who never even made it to the semester break. He had no control on the class, was completely out of his depth (and got no help from the administrators - it was sink or swim). When Judy went to the front of the class to give an oral report one day, the kids kept talking and messing around, paying no attention to her. She slammed a textbook down on the teacher's desk and pronounced, "You may get away with this kind of behavior when Mr. X is up here, but you're NOT going to act like this in front of me. SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, and show a little respect for me and for yourselves. Your are HUMAN BEINGS not ANIMALS. I'll wait until you can get it together." She did and they did, and when she was done she told them, "You should be this polite to Mr. X, too. It wouldn't kill you."

I have always been surprised that she made it through high school without someone decking her. A couple of kids threatened to, but her response of "Do you know the meaning of lawsuit? I wouldn't mind owning your daddy's car." dissuaded them.

My son, on the other hand, had to deal with his father being one of the principals of his high school, and luckily he was very laid back about it. "Your dad's as A***ole!)" To which he's shrug, smile, and say, "Yeah, I know. Nothing I can do about it. I've got no power here. Sorry about that." And go whistling on his way without a care in the world.

Di
Central Florida Zone 9a/b

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