Quote:
|
Yeah, but in our generation when you screwed up in school the teachers were allowed to swat your ass to get you back in line.
|
Personally I think this is where the biggest problem is. No support from the administrators when it comes to disciplining students. I don't know if it's because administration has no backbone or they simply don't give a sh*t but these kids get away with stuff that is unacceptable.
Kids learn to ignore authority and become a problem for society. The schools smile all while standing in the government funding line.
Instead of No Child Left Behind it should be called pre-welfare training or How to get by in life with little to no effort.
I realize parents probably love the idea of uniforms. I'm sure it saves them money and makes dressing kids easier, but I think the concept is screwed up. Everyone can still spot the little gang-bangers, the rich kids still huddle in the halls and everyone still knows and makes fun of the poor kids.
Aren't schools meant to prepare kids for the future? Give them the tools they need to be successful? Not that the uniforms are fooling anyone, but how is hiding the truth that, in the real world, we are not the same going to help?
What they need to learn is how to deal with the fact that, just like in school, rich people get special treatment and control what others do, middle class does the work and the poor can only hope to be middle class some day. Now this may sound like I have a poor out look on life but far from it. It's simply the facts of life. I learned it in school and now I can deal with it in life.
I don't ever remember judging fellow students by what they wore. Thinking back I do remember the rich kids being well dressed and the poor kids wearing old/hand-me-downs but I never classified them by what they wore but only by their actions.
I also have a real problem with allowing Spanish to be spoken by students except in Spanish class. How is a teacher to know these students chattering in Spanish aren't calling them names, making plans to attack another student or some other criminal act? I remember getting in trouble in school by a teacher for speaking Pig Latin. I can also remember Hispanics being told to speak English.
I guess maybe I'm just out of touch with what kids need today to prepare for entering the work force. They need to get used to the rich ignoring the middle class and poor who work for them. They need to get used to working with non-English speaking co-workers who will probably be their Foreman/Supervisor, and that playing the race card gets you out of trouble by scaring the hell out of people.