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- From: elg@elgamy.uucp.taronga.com (Eric Lee Green)
- Message-ID: <00722135684@elgamy.uucp.taronga.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:14:44 CDT
- Newsgroups: misc.education
- Subject: Re: Why Johnny can't tell right from wrong.
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- Organization: Eric's Amiga 2000 @ Home
- References: <1992Nov16.144944.23285@asl.dl.nec.com>
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- From article <1992Nov16.144944.23285@asl.dl.nec.com>, by dillhoff@aslws01.asl.dl.nec.com (Doug Dillhoff):
- > The title is "Why Johnny can't tell right from wrong.", by Kilpatrick, a
- > thoughts? It is a case for character education as opposed to the current
- > and past emphasis on descision making skills and allowing the child
-
- H.I.S.D. is big on "character education" Kilpatrick style. I can't see
- where it makes much difference. My parents tell my kids, "If another kid
- bothers you, beat him to a pulp." My parents tell my kids, "Them teachers
- is there only cuz they can't do nuthin' else." The kids do not respect each
- other, and they do not respect their teachers. In fact, one teacher at the
- school I teach at got a split lip and another got the wind knocked out of
- her by a kid who decided teachers were fair game. Then the parent comes up
- to the school and says "What are you people doing to my poor child, my
- child isn't a discipline problem," etc. etc.... one parent personally
- threatened to turn me into an ink blot on the pavement for disciplining his
- daughter, who "isn't a behavior problem" but who somehow despite that
- managed to drench me with the entire contents of a milk carton, dashed into
- my face.
-
- When the parents are saying this to the kids... what choice do we have
- besides telling the kids, "don't listen to your parents"? If anything makes
- me get out of the inner city, it will be this issue. I'm the wrong color to
- be telling these kids that their parents are raising them wrong. If a black
- man said it, it would be okay... if I say it, I'm a racist.
-
- --
- Eric Lee Green elg@elgamy.taronga.com Dodson Elementary
- (713) 664-6446 Houston, TX
- "Kids are kids, no matter what"
-