How do you expect a school to discipline when the parent does not support it? If the parent feels like it's the school fault, and not their kids or their own, then the school doesn't have a chance. The point of this thread is that the school tries to discipline and it is fought by the same parents who desire it.
I know what the point of this thread was, you're the one who brought up that story. and it seems to me that the woman in the story you brought up wanted extra dicipline from the school. it seems to me the woman was trying to help the school clean up a problem. you're the one who went off on her lack of parenting.
If my kid was having sneaking off to have sex at school I would hold the kid and myself responsible, not the school. That is just ridiculous.
she wasn't holding the school responsible for her kid having sex, she was holding them responsible for not doing a better job of preventing things like that happening. you can replace sex with alcohol, drugs, violence, etc. if my mom found out I had sex at the park as a teenager, she's not only going to sit me down about having sex, she's gonna try to prevent it from happpening at the park again. and you're reaching, you have no idea what the mother told the son about having sex. just because she wants the school to do a better job of keeping an eye on the kids doesn't mean she's laying all the blame down at the feet of the school.
I'm not reaching. I was watching it with my wife who taught high school for eight years then got out because she was sick of dealing with parents like we were seeing on the tv.
oh, your wife was sick by the story, my bad, your wife because she teaches knows exactly what goes on in every school in america in every household of every student that trumps everything.
Yup, because everyone that doesn't do things the MEOWGI way is obviously doing nothing. A parent that expects an institution that provides learning to their children to prevent said children from having sex obviously does nothing. You don't like kids. We get it. You think that no one but the parents should be completely and totally responsible for the actions of their children. Ever heard the saying that it takes a village to raise a child? Guess what, the school is apart of that village. They hold some sort of responsibility. As do the parents.
it seems to me if your wife wanted to be upset with someone, it would have been the station for reporting the story the way they did. I just don't see why you have a problem with a parent wanting the school to prevent things like sex on campus. kids are kids, no matter how much you teach them right from wrong, they're gonna do stupid things. we as adults do stupid things. I don't see what's wrong with asking a little help from the place your kids are required to be at 7 hrs a day. edit: again the story wasn't my kid had sex on campus, its kids are having sex on campus all the time and the school isn't doing anything.
I used to be like that and then I realized a couple of things I had good parents I was a knuckle head kid therefore a doesn't preven b, it only helps then I realized all the kids I thought I was less of a knuclehead than had good parents then I realized my parents weren't perfect then I realized no one is
All of it IMHO still boils down to parents being actively involved in their kid's lives... not just active enough to drop them off at the school, or sitter, or sunday school, or youth center, or baseball... Be actively involved! Ask you kids questions and don't lay off until you have answers... Be parents! Not just a ride, or a buddy that funds their life.
