OT: Kids
I'm in no mood to blog about sport today. I must stop reading newspapers (even online) except for the sports news and live in my own little coccooned world.
Two articles have tipped the scales of my fragile stability - the child abuse cases in Rotorua and our rising violence in schools. Not many will think they are linked but they are. Unfortunately we now live in a society where we the current generation growing up are not learning about basic values such as personal responsibility and accountability and we wonder why when they turn into adults they can do such repulsive things as spinning a kid in a dryer?
The news that teachers are subject to increasing levels of both physical and verbal abuse won't be a surprise to many - but it might pay to stop and think why. Could it have something to do with the banning of corporal punishment in schools together with educating children on rights over responsibilities?
For those of us approaching geriatric status, we will well recall a belt on the bum with a strap or cane when we stepped out of line at school. My first was for playing noughts and crosses in English. Did I ever do that again? No, lesson (painfully) learned. Fast forward to today when teachers get told to fuck off and all the educators can do is send them out of the classroom, which is what the kid wants in the first place.
Seven teachers have left the local college this year so far. It ain't anything to do with pay or management. Children are being taught the consequences for what most of us would call anti-social behaviour are trivial; teachers are powerless to deal effectively with physical and verbal abuse - so when these little shits enter adulthood if they feel like pinning a child up on the clothesline they'll do so because they haven't learnt anything about being responsible for your actions, or facing up to the music when you overstep the mark.
Yes, I'm bitter through recent personal experience. My 13 y.o. stepson can threaten to kill me, and walk around town telling anyone who cares to listen that I'm a child basher (complete fiction in case you need to ask) and there is fuck all I can do about it. Basically he is learning that he can do anything he feels like doing and there aren't any consequences - until he does something really stupid (that's when, not if). Hopefully it won't end up in the papers.
What's really scary is thanks to Sue Bradford corporal punishment in the home has also been banned, so a parent's ability to reinforce some important life lessons with the occasional kick up the bum has also been curtailed. I shudder to think what some of the current generation of children will be like as adults, growing up believing all that is important in society are their personal rights and choices, having an attitude of I'll do what I'll please and you can't touch me, while learning about taking responsibility for the choices you make and having some understanding of how your actions affect others seems way down the list.
So if you wonder how some members of our society can be so animalistic in their actions, understand if they haven't had teachers or parents correcting misbehaviour as they grow into adults, coupled with an imbalance in the education of rights and responsibilities it's not entirely surprising. And what are we doing about it? Re-inforcing even more that rights are paramount and putting more obstacles in the way of those responsible for shaping future generations. Makes you want to go and have a vasectomy.
Time to go and take a chill pill.
Two articles have tipped the scales of my fragile stability - the child abuse cases in Rotorua and our rising violence in schools. Not many will think they are linked but they are. Unfortunately we now live in a society where we the current generation growing up are not learning about basic values such as personal responsibility and accountability and we wonder why when they turn into adults they can do such repulsive things as spinning a kid in a dryer?
The news that teachers are subject to increasing levels of both physical and verbal abuse won't be a surprise to many - but it might pay to stop and think why. Could it have something to do with the banning of corporal punishment in schools together with educating children on rights over responsibilities?
For those of us approaching geriatric status, we will well recall a belt on the bum with a strap or cane when we stepped out of line at school. My first was for playing noughts and crosses in English. Did I ever do that again? No, lesson (painfully) learned. Fast forward to today when teachers get told to fuck off and all the educators can do is send them out of the classroom, which is what the kid wants in the first place.
Seven teachers have left the local college this year so far. It ain't anything to do with pay or management. Children are being taught the consequences for what most of us would call anti-social behaviour are trivial; teachers are powerless to deal effectively with physical and verbal abuse - so when these little shits enter adulthood if they feel like pinning a child up on the clothesline they'll do so because they haven't learnt anything about being responsible for your actions, or facing up to the music when you overstep the mark.
Yes, I'm bitter through recent personal experience. My 13 y.o. stepson can threaten to kill me, and walk around town telling anyone who cares to listen that I'm a child basher (complete fiction in case you need to ask) and there is fuck all I can do about it. Basically he is learning that he can do anything he feels like doing and there aren't any consequences - until he does something really stupid (that's when, not if). Hopefully it won't end up in the papers.
What's really scary is thanks to Sue Bradford corporal punishment in the home has also been banned, so a parent's ability to reinforce some important life lessons with the occasional kick up the bum has also been curtailed. I shudder to think what some of the current generation of children will be like as adults, growing up believing all that is important in society are their personal rights and choices, having an attitude of I'll do what I'll please and you can't touch me, while learning about taking responsibility for the choices you make and having some understanding of how your actions affect others seems way down the list.
So if you wonder how some members of our society can be so animalistic in their actions, understand if they haven't had teachers or parents correcting misbehaviour as they grow into adults, coupled with an imbalance in the education of rights and responsibilities it's not entirely surprising. And what are we doing about it? Re-inforcing even more that rights are paramount and putting more obstacles in the way of those responsible for shaping future generations. Makes you want to go and have a vasectomy.
Time to go and take a chill pill.
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posted by Rob Crawford at 12:45 PM
1 Comments:
I 100% agree with you, when are you running for prime minister?
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