Posted on 10/03/2006 4:38:59 PM PDT by disclaimer
NEW YORK - A public school is requiring detention for parents who get their kids to school late.
Under the new rule at the Manhattan School for Children, parents who don’t drop off their children by 8:25 a.m. have to pick up late slips from the principal’s office and go to the auditorium to serve 20 minutes of detention with them.
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Wow. Make the parents, in some small way, responsible for their children. It is about damned time.
or else what? They'll get swats?
Almost makes me wish my children were back in school, so I could tell these little Hitlers where to shove it.
Actually, they were like that 15 years ago when the kids WERE in school. I remember walking in for a parent/teacher night, and having the teacher order us all to sit down and be quiet. I walked out.
It was.....
agree
"Wow. Make the parents, in some small way, responsible for their children. It is about damned time."
While I agree with your sentiment, I don't agree with the policy. So the dog pukes on my pants and shoes, now I have to change clothes and clean up the mess, now we are late for school, I am late for work, and the school is going to tell me I have to go to detention. Sorry, ain't happening.
How about I make the teachers come to my house for detention every time the tell my child something incorrect, fail to grade homework, or forget to send a note home with my child. Sh!t happens. The school needs to get over itself.
I attended my grand son's 8th grade graduation last May. Packed auditorium, hot, wringing wet with sweat. At the end of the ceremony the announcer told everybody to keep their seats until the teachers had completely filed out of the building.
Two exits, I was on the opposite end of where the teachers were exiting and my exit was wide open except for some old hen standing there. I approached the exit and she held her hands out in front of her to stop me. I breezed right by her and she said, "you have to wait until the teachers are gone"
I said, "not in this lifetime" and walked out the door.
She must think that I have no respect for teachers. She might be right.
I'm waiting for the first news story of a principal getting their teeth knocked out or sued by the lawyer who actually sat in there and then bills them for the 20 minutes.
When do we start holding the schools and teachers responsible for something?
We had a teacher that gave large amounts of homework tell us he only grades 5-10% of it. It is to time consuming. So my kids spent an hour or more every day on his homework that he did not grade or return to the students. Heal thy self school before you lecture me.
My daughter had gone through PreK and Kindergarten at a Catholic school without a problem.
We moved to another town. Enrolled her in Public School.
She had to sit next to a student that continuosly banged his head on his desk. She came home crying everyday.
After a week of this we had a meeting with her teacher.
The teachers advice was to schedule an appointment with a shrink.
Needless to say we pulled her and enrolled her in a Catholic school
So the dog pukes on your pants...
So the dog eats the homework...
Parents have been abdicating their parental responsibilities since the dirty stinking hippies had kids. Teach the kid to clean up the dog puke. Teach the kid to hide the homework from the dog. Teach the kid that his/her responsibility is school and back it up by making sure that the kid gets there.
Hopefully this Big Brother step (I agree, it is) will be a clarion call to teach these deadbeats that their resposibilities are to rear their children properly. We have been paying the price (for 50 years now) for this lassitude.
I'll take the three days suspension.......I need to go fishing anyways!
What a fine example you set.
lol, that is all that happens? I knew someone who had social services calling on her because she couldn't get her kid to school on time.
She had glaucoma, high blood pressure, and was just not very high energy.
SAD.
little control freaks they are...
Decades ago, being a teacher was a "calling" for educated upper-middle-class women. I think it was then that the teacher culture got into its collective head that the peasants that they ministered to should treat them like noblewomen.
These days my attitude would be "You are a unionized public employee, just like my sanitation man and postman. I will treat you as politely as you treat me, but do not ever have an expectation of deference"
I have very little respect for most teachers and/or school administrators. Most of them think their crap doesn't stink. I fought with them all the way through my daughter's school years. I told a VP once that when she passed my daughter in the hall to not even speak to her. I complained about the VP to all the administrators and within a few months she was gone.
They all talked down to me and that is something I can't stand. I told one teacher once that she really shouldn't be so condescending since my education was a helluva lot better than hers.
I pay for my granddaughter to go to private school, no way is she going into the public school hellhole of California.
These days my attitude would be "You are a unionized public employee, just like my sanitation man and postman. I will treat you as politely as you treat me, but do not ever have an expectation of deference"
I used to tell them......'afterall, you DO work for me, I pay your salary."
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