I teach high school. I tell my friends that the students would be better off staying home smoking weed and watching mtv than going to school. Yes, smoking weed and mtv are bad, but not as bad as school. The only thing that is taught in school is bad habits. One thing schools are great at teaching is how to hate learning and how to be dependent on someone else.
Speaking of bad habits,lets take the tardiness issue as an example.
Kids wander into class five,ten,fifteen minutes late to class with no real consequences.After lunch,they tote bags of food and sodas into class and begin munching.Tell them they can’t come to class with food?Then you will find the VP or a security guard admonishing you for not admitting them.So why even bother enforcing “rules”?
Then these kids enter the job market and maintain those same habits of tardiness and irregular attendance.They get fired and are in shock.Hey,it was OK in high school so why are these employers”straight tripping”?
Pretty sad.