Shio said:
PaulH said:
See ... call it what you like, but frankly I think parents should be the ones expected to discipline their kids. Judicial process shouldn't be expected to fill those gaps as well.
That system only works when the parents are reasonable, lol. The youngest son (maybe seven-years-old) of the family across the road once pissed on our driveway and broke several of my mum's garden decorations by smashing them on the road. The parents thought it funny and laughed it off.
Fail parents are fail!
Too many parents leave it up to schools to basically raise their children. Proper eating courses... etc. If you really have so little time to teach your child
the basics that you will leave such duties to a complete stranger teaching 30 other kids the same thing and couldn't be arsed if one student out of that class is failing ... then what type of parent are you?
I mean it's getting to the point that I think most Western countries would have better luck with the education system as it stands if parents merely had children and dropped them off at an 'Education Camp' when they hit 4 years of age.
Where they're all assigned a 'Student Identification Number' to wear on their all-grey tunics and slacks, tattooed into the back of their necks, and a central 'Scholarly Barracks' (assembled by Age) they have to report to 10 hours a day led by central disciplinarian and a militantly structured arm of Educators directly answerable to the 'Education Field Marshal' of the Ordo Paedagogus.
No time on the "outside", except periodic 'government work center' shifts each week.
I mean, parents already expect teachers with their whole 55 mins a week with their child to facilitate in not only filling their heads with knowledge, but teaching them to be ethical human beings. Seriously ... it's bullshit ... thge job shold be me, book, blackboard, 25 students ... if they listen they listen, if they don't they don't, if they don't listen and stop others from being able to listen they lose 10 lunch breaks cleaning the entire quadrangle.
Ahhh ... days of what are rapidly seeming like the "Golden Age" of parental responsibility.