Education

Getting rid of phones in class is a great idea...

Sadly, as we know, non-teacher parents are usually morons and text their kids during the day, call their kid during the day and of course freak out if the kids phone is taken from them because "That is NOT your phone, do you pay for that phone, NO, so you can't take that phone from my son"

 
Here is a fun story...

About two months ago, a MOM drove her daughter back to school to a track meet, so that her daughter could find and FIGHT another girl who "disrespected her"

Security did not let them in and when they drove off the mom was yelling out a lot of very un-nice things.

The security guards had a few choice words as well, that I will not post here because some of your eyes won't be able to handle what you read.  Hahaha

 
teachercd said:
Here is a problem...

Parents are more likely to show up to school to "protect" their kid for something they did that was wrong, instead of showing up to school to yell at their kid and discipline them.  

Kids are a minor problem, moron parents are the big problem.  
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The NUMBER 1 problem and the only thing that needs to be fixed is proper parenting; either the lack of it, or the overbearing parents.

You know who the good kids are and the ones that make my job enjoyable?  The one's with normal parents that know what in the hell they are doing as a grown up.  They are involved, they understand that students are just kids and teachers are professional adults.  They don't brainwash their kids with nonsense from the dark edges of the internet like the earth being flat and teachers being part of the Illuminati.

If schools would grow a spine and suspend kids until their parents pass some sort of "Good Parenting 101" class, education would change for the better over night.  One phone call home for a kid that has good parents usually fixes an issue immediately.

 
funhusker said:
The NUMBER 1 problem and the only thing that needs to be fixed is proper parenting; either the lack of it, or the overbearing parents.

You know who the good kids are and the ones that make my job enjoyable?  The one's with normal parents that know what in the hell they are doing as a grown up.  They are involved, they understand that students are just kids and teachers are professional adults.  They don't brainwash their kids with nonsense from the dark edges of the internet like the earth being flat and teachers being part of the Illuminati.

If schools would grow a spine and suspend kids until their parents pass some sort of "Good Parenting 101" class, education would change for the better over night.  One phone call home for a kid that has good parents usually fixes an issue immediately.
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AMEN!!!

Or the crazy parents that believe their kid when the kid says "My teacher doesn't even teach us" or the moron parent that demands to know "Well, what punishment did the other kid get, since my kid got XYZ punishment, what happened to the other student?"

Parents don't get it.  

Okay, time to get back to watching netflix. 

 
funhusker said:
The NUMBER 1 problem and the only thing that needs to be fixed is proper parenting; either the lack of it, or the overbearing parents.

You know who the good kids are and the ones that make my job enjoyable?  The one's with normal parents that know what in the hell they are doing as a grown up.  They are involved, they understand that students are just kids and teachers are professional adults.  They don't brainwash their kids with nonsense from the dark edges of the internet like the earth being flat and teachers being part of the Illuminati.

If schools would grow a spine and suspend kids until their parents pass some sort of "Good Parenting 101" class, education would change for the better over night.  One phone call home for a kid that has good parents usually fixes an issue immediately.
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It is interesting, I have pre-season meetings with parents about how/when they can contact me and stuff like that, for sports.

We DO need that for parents when it comes to the regular school year too.

 
See what can happen when teachers run stuff!

When I was in Vegas, they started a charter school.  They had monthly meetings (not sure the exact time frame) with teachers and parents.  If parents missed the meeting, the kid was gone.  I think there were a lot of parenting classes going on with these meetings.  The school was located in the inner city.

Kids are not the problem; the adults attached to them are the problem.

 
Archy1221 said:
It can be both.   Some parents are really great people and have some not so great kids no matter how hard they tried to raise them the right way 
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Yeah, that happens too.

Usually it is a different type of "bad" though.

Parents that do a great job raising kids who turn out to be "bad" are usually more of the sneaky type of kid, where they don't really cause major annoying issues in the classroom.  They tend to know how to act around adults and how to make it seem like they are a good kid...then on the weekends and outside of school they are causing issues.  Usually, not always. 

 
teachercd said:
Yeah, that happens too.

Usually it is a different type of "bad" though.

Parents that do a great job raising kids who turn out to be "bad" are usually more of the sneaky type of kid, where they don't really cause major annoying issues in the classroom.  They tend to know how to act around adults and how to make it seem like they are a good kid...then on the weekends and outside of school they are causing issues.  Usually, not always. 
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I agree, but that seems to be rarer in my experience.  Jackwagon kids tend to be from Jackwagon parents.  When a kid learns about consequences when they are young, they tend not to be Jackwagons.  I always tell parents to let their kids learn about consequences before the consequences include the justice system.

 
teachercd said:
"Gentle parenting"

If your kid is not scared of you...you F-ed up

I don't mean that they should be worried about getting hit...but they better be freaking scared of their parents wrath.  
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I had a parent ask if her son could have his detention moved to a “lunch detention” so he wouldn’t miss football practice.  Internally I just thought “hey, why are you giving up such a great teaching opportunity”. 
 

Yes, that kid is constantly in trouble but his parents don’t really see the big deal.  He’s passing his classes…

 
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