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Do you really think lack of food was the issue in St Paul?
Posted on: April 18, 2017 at 07:38:43 CT
DHighlander NWMSU
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Yes, every school in America now serves breakfast and lunch and many of the title IX schools also send home an evening meal.
While I understand the need for this the only real mission of a school is to prepare students for their future. If the schools refuse the set academic and discipline standards for the kids then the only future they are being prepared fro is the penal system.
With no discipline or consequences how are 60-70 adults supposed to provide a safe learning environment to 1500 young adults? And don't anyone kid yourselves high school students are not children they are young adults. Any trouble that an adult can create a fourteen year old freshman can just as easily.
One of the things adolescents naturally do is push boundaries. They push until they encounter an actual boundary, not what the rules say but what is actually enforced, if that boundary is soft they continue pushing. That is natural behavior. If there are no boundaries, or if the boundaries are in name only, then chaos ensues. Children not only need discipline they actually want discipline.
One of my old colleagues had a plaque on his wall that stated 'Discipline is not something you do to a child, discipline is something you do for a child." I wish more administrators and policy setters understood the wisdom in this simple statement.
While I understand the need for this the only real mission of a school is to prepare students for their future. If the schools refuse the set academic and discipline standards for the kids then the only future they are being prepared fro is the penal system.
With no discipline or consequences how are 60-70 adults supposed to provide a safe learning environment to 1500 young adults? And don't anyone kid yourselves high school students are not children they are young adults. Any trouble that an adult can create a fourteen year old freshman can just as easily.
One of the things adolescents naturally do is push boundaries. They push until they encounter an actual boundary, not what the rules say but what is actually enforced, if that boundary is soft they continue pushing. That is natural behavior. If there are no boundaries, or if the boundaries are in name only, then chaos ensues. Children not only need discipline they actually want discipline.
One of my old colleagues had a plaque on his wall that stated 'Discipline is not something you do to a child, discipline is something you do for a child." I wish more administrators and policy setters understood the wisdom in this simple statement.
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Do you really think lack of food was the issue in St Paul? - DHighlander NWMSU - 4/18 07:38:43
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