Remember the good ole days when you were afraid to cut up cause you were scared to go to the principal's office? Forget that what about how scared you were to go home and face the parents. Now days there is no fear left... Kids act up and the school system's solution is throw them out. Well what kid would not want to stay at home all day and watch tv rather than go to school. Teacher's do not care like they use to. They complain that they are not being paid enough money. That may be so but that does not give them a "show up at work cause it's a job" card to not even care about the students they are suppose to be nurturing. I have 2 children in Junior High and 1 in Highschool and 1 in elementary.
I have found the elementary teachers to be excellent educators. When it comes to Junior High Teacher's I feel they should have to take extensive courses in Child Psychology and be required to attend seminars and do field work with Juveniles. Adolescence is a critical period and one that if a child is unable to make a transition into succesfully can turn out to be addicts, delinquents, wards of the state. Teacher's need to be equipped to deal with emotions because alot of Teacher's do not have children. How do you know what parents are goin through if you have never been there yourself?
What's even more sad is that alot of kids today do not even have 2 parents or 1for that matter. Kids have to deal with alot more than ABC's and Algebra. They have crack addicted parents to go home to, or daddy's molesting them, or a mom beating them, peer pressure, and who knows what else. Instead of worrying so much about what a kid is wearin to school or instead of nagging about a shirt tail being tucked in " take the time to care about the child that you are shaping and molding". Isn't that the oath that you took when you signed up for the job?
