Parents.

In response to Mrs. Stevens blog....

     To become a teacher, you must seek further education after the mandatory twelve years of schooling. Once you've been accepted to a college, you must register for your classes, pay thousands of dollars for your schooling, pass a few dozen classes, tests, and exams. You must do that for four years. Eight semesters. 216 weeks. 1,460 days. It's a job in which others expect only professionalism, but none is given in return. Teachers should be treated like most people treat surgeons. We are experts in our craft. We've trained for years to try to teach the future generations. But that becomes difficult when we are constantly having to answer minuscule, irrelevant questions from tight-rein parents who doubt our judgment.

     Most parents are very quick to administer discipline to their children when they've done something wrong in their household. If a child pushes his sister in the dining room, he sits in time-out for twenty minutes. If the same child hits a student on the playground, and the teacher calls home, that teacher is accused of naming the child as "violent". We love your kids. We look out for your children. We try to coach and tach your kids not only curriculum, but the basic skills and morals needed later in life. We do not ask for your whole-hearted approval, but we ask for your acceptance and your trust.

     Kids are learning excuses. They're full of them. Excuses for not turning in homework, excuses for bad behavior, excuses for attitudes, excuses for attendance, ect. Parent's need to squash this in the bud. If we instill in our children responsibility and truth in their childhood, those morals and standards will stick with them through adulthood. The repercussions of those negative traits can affect the children in the future. They have the potential to leave everything unfinished, and never fully showcase their potential.


     For example, responsibility in school is something I have always struggled with. This year in my algebra two class, at the end of the six weeks i had twelve missing assignments, 2 missing k-checks, and two missing tests. I don't know what that happened either. It taught me that I cannot slide by the system and I will receive what I put forth.

     Students need to also learn this lesson. The sooner we instill moral codes in them, and have parents back us up as professionals, the more positive results we will see.