Parents, Teachers and Our Schools
We as parents and teachers need to stand together to help our children.
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I’m a mother of a middle school student who deals with dares, bullying, and tries to be a leader, however ends up being a follower. In today’s schools there, is more going on then what most parents want to see or believe…? I realize we cannot as parents protect our children from everything, but there does come a point in time that we need to take charge. I have watched parents take their children out of public schools and teach them at home; because their children are being bullied to the point, they refused to go. That alone is unfair. As for one example, there was child who did what he was suppose to, his homework, participated in class and past all test, in return he was called names and told on with lies. His friends started to ignore him and turned their back. Therefore, he decided to do the opposite of good. The failing of test, and after school detention. All this over bullying and trying to keep friendship. The schools today are well over packed and the bullying is starting at a younger age. If parents and teachers don’t get a handle on the problems, the schools are going to be in trouble. It is unfair that our children will run and hide and lie to us all over the fact that they would rather keep these problems inside then to release and be looked at as a tattle teller. Has anyone stopped to wonder why there are so many young children being put inside of a juvenile placement centers? In today’s society which the opposite of our childhood they need more comfort and more time spent listening.
Every day that I turn the news on there is always one school or another on TV that has a problem.
The other day I turned on the TV so watch the news for the weather and as I sat there watching there it was, a murder on a campus close to home. Just over a couple not agreeing on being together and the girl deciding that, it’s time to move on. For those who live in pa, you know what I am talking about. For those who don’t this girl really had to suffer and be tortured over on person’s ignorance and ego.
Let us as parents and teachers stand together and help our children.
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Ben Leichtling
On April 18, 2009 at 1:33 pm
In the space of five days, we honor Jackie Robinson’s finally breaking into the major leagues and we also memorialize Eric Harris and Dylan Klebolt’s massacre at Columbine High School ten years ago. They each faced a failed system – but in opposite directions – and they illustrate character and courage – but at opposite ends of the spectrum.
The stories about what was done and said to Jackie Robinson fill volumes. I was born in Brooklyn and was old enough to go to Ebbets Field to see Robinson play in his second year. The insults, curses and threats from the players and fans were still going on then.
The rotten system that kept Robinson out of baseball and harassed him for years was full of anger, hatred and the very real possibility of killing him and his family.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebolt faced a rotten system on the other extreme. They were allowed to be violent, destructive and threaten classmates, but instead of being removed from contact with other students who were their victims, the two were coddled.
A generation in charge of the school and the police falsely believed that if you kept extremely troubled kids in contact with the rest of us and gave them lots of counseling, the troubled kids would stop being crazy bullies. Harris and Klebolt showed a generation what the price was for living that false educational philosophy; each one of those psychopaths could kill about ten innocent people.
We still haven’t righted the system. Thousands of innocent kids are bullied and harassed at school each day while society, the legal system and school principals don’t stop the bullying juvenile delinquents, psychopaths and psychotics.
Jackie Robinson had the character and courage to endure and surmount far worse than the bullying that is claimed to have pushed Harris and Klebolt over the edge. Robinson didn’t give up or explode.
Neither Harris nor Klebolt had character or courage. Bullying didn’t push them over the edge. They ran willingly and repeatedly right to the edge and then jumped off. None of the adults stopped them or removed them.
When will we start protecting the rest of us from the bullies and crazies?
Disclosure: In addition to having six children, growing up in Brooklyn and living in Denver, I’m a practical, pragmatic coach and consultant. I’ve written books of case studies, “Parenting Bully-Proof Kids” and “How to Stop Bullies in their Tracks.” Check out my website and blog at BulliesBeGone (http://BulliesBeGone.com).
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