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What Is Wrong With Children These Days
By Andie, Guest Writer |Email| |
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Have you noticed that children these days act a lot differently then we did when we were their age? Kids are talking back to their elders, discussing things at school that are inappropriate and getting into a lot more trouble. What is different now then when we were that young? Why have kids gotten so mean, rude and disrespectful? It doesn’t seem that anything a parent does matters anymore, or does it? |
With myself being a teacher, I have seen a great deal of things that I wish I didn’t have to see. This past summer I took part in an internship with the Chicago Public Schools on the south side. This internship placed me in a school in the worst neighborhood of Chicago. Of course, this was an extreme case regarding children, but it just shows how bad a kid can really be. Many of the students in this school had severe issues at home. Hardly any of these kids had a father figure at home, the mother that did take care for them was a drug addict and because of these things, the student’s rate of success at school was unattainable.
Besides their home life, the teacher didn’t care about her students. She came into the classroom high every day and didn’t dress appropriately. One day this teacher came into the classroom with a t-shirt that said, “You can look, but don’t touch.” What is this saying about the educators? It doesn’t seem that they care much more about the students then the parents do. I am a firm believer that if a teacher comes into the room with an “I don’t care attitude,” the students can spot that and in return not care as well.
Besides the inner city schools, I have heard of horrible language in our suburban schools. These schools always seem to have a reputation of better classroom management and better behaved kids. Well, it may be partially true, but it sure “ain’t” all true. I spoke to a teacher the other day at the school I student teach at which just so happens to be a Catholic school. She was telling me about one of her students who is a second grader who talks about graphic sexual things in the classroom.
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Apparently he may be learning these words from an older cousin. This teacher cannot get a hold of the parents to discuss this child’s behavior. She’s sent home notes, made calls, and…nothing. One time I guess she was able to talk to a parent earlier in the year, and the parents had the nerve to say, “My child is acting up because you are not challenging him enough.” Ok, my response on that is maybe he isn’t being challenged enough, which is why a child might act out, but the WAY he’s acting out has nothing to do with not being challenged. |
I think these parents had a lot of nerve to throw their child’s behavior on the teacher. Now parents of other children in that classroom are complaining that their kids are coming home and saying things that are inappropriate. That’s how it starts folks.
I talked to my father recently about how discipline was when he was a kid. Things seemed so different then. In his school they didn’t have beatings like one might think, but the teacher could just give them an evil look, and the bad behavior stopped. That’s it! What is the difference between then and now? Why doesn’t a look do the trick anymore? Sure, there are still a few kids that can be thrown a “look” their way and know what they did was wrong, but it seems rare these days.
Kids are having sex at earlier ages, kids are drinking, smoking and doing drugs earlier and no look will stop that behavior. Kids are out of control. Is it the parents, the teachers or classmates? I really think it’s a mixture of all these things. If your child is around someone who is teaching your child inappropriate things, have the decency to take that child away from that social connection.
- Andie -
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