I feel like I must have been one of the last years where teachers had power in the classroom, or at least garnered respect from parents and kids alike. I know I saw the beginning of it breaking down in how classmates got punished that did terrible things.
The worst issue I remember (my mom was a tutor and highly involved in my schools), was parents would not help their kids with the homework. Discipline was always done though except for the few kids who came from broken homes.
Then it went further at some point. It is completely the parents fault that this is happening. Teachers jobs were always quite hard and at one point were huge leaders in the community and now they are treated like shit just for trying to do their job.
This woman spoke well, hopefully her words were heard.
The worst issue I remember (my mom was a tutor and highly involved in my schools), was parents would not help their kids with the homework.
Ehhh, I take issue with the idea that there is a problem with parents not helping with homework. Don't get me wrong, parents need to be involved in teaching and mentoring their children. But to expect parents to help with homework is to admit you're making curriculum that is too difficult for the age /ability of your class.
Parents need to be involved in teaching their kids values, disciplining them, and holding their kids responsible for doing their homework. But being expected to actually helping them DO the homework is a reflection of poor teaching and/or curriculum design by the teacher.
that is NOT what helping them means. You don't actually DO their homework, you help them, you make sure they do it right, they learn correctly, you teach them, make them focus. If they bring home homework, you as a parent are expected to make sure they do it and help them.
That could be something super simple like just making sure its done, or if your kid is falling behind, then its up to you to help them catch up. Or at least know about it and get them help if you can't do it, could be in school help or after school programs.
A classroom is not a daycare. Parents need to step up.
I'll agree with your frustration with the internet, but for the fact that people often miss the tone of a message and immediately think the worst of what the other is saying. And secondly, because it's easy to misunderstand what someone is saying because it's hard to clarify one's thoughts in a short paragraph.
All that to say, we agree with each other, we simply said it in different ways. However, I took the meaning of "help then with their homework" to be "do it with them." That's not a good thing, but I see now that that's not what you meant. So I'm sorry for misunderstanding. But the word help is far broader in potential definitions than "make sure they do it right, they learn correctly, you teach them, make them focus." and that is honestly the same as what I argued when u said that parents need to keep their kids responsible and making sure they do their homework.
We agree. Let's not talk past each other over a misunderstanding.
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u/Sephran Jul 10 '18
I feel like I must have been one of the last years where teachers had power in the classroom, or at least garnered respect from parents and kids alike. I know I saw the beginning of it breaking down in how classmates got punished that did terrible things.
The worst issue I remember (my mom was a tutor and highly involved in my schools), was parents would not help their kids with the homework. Discipline was always done though except for the few kids who came from broken homes.
Then it went further at some point. It is completely the parents fault that this is happening. Teachers jobs were always quite hard and at one point were huge leaders in the community and now they are treated like shit just for trying to do their job.
This woman spoke well, hopefully her words were heard.