I alredy am ashamed of my generation but the more I watch children today, the more I'm concearned about the future. What led me to this ephifany? The first mother that complained about me in my new job. (Yeah, I've been there for a week and someone alredy complained about me)
I'm a teacher assistant in this school and yesterday the lead teacher of the class went to talk with the headmaster and the owner of the school. When she came back to class she told me that a mother said to the owner of the school that when she came to pick her son up, she saw me yelling to another child. I was shocked. Of course that I always have to control the italian part of me that talks loudly very often but knowing that these little "angels" will tell their parents everything I say or do, I am really carefull. I kept thinking about the day before trying to remember why did I scream to the boy - that she couldn't even say who was, then I remembered.
The boy in question spent the whole day pushing the other students. He pushed students on the line while we were walking by the hallways. He pushed students in the playground, he was doing this the whole day, really. The teacher and me were calling his attention for his actions, trying to make him see that pushing his classmates is wrong, not yelling at him. Not talking down at him! Well, when the woman was arriving to pick her son the child was pushing a classmate, the child fell over a desk and of course started to cry! The first thing I did after picking the one who fell was saying: "Hey! We alredy told you about pushing your friends. You could have hurt him! Don't do that again!" Then the woman came in. What was I supposed to do? Say "Congratulations! You just pushed a classmate again, well done." ???? I wonder if it was her son the one who was pushed if she would be thinking that I was yelling to the other kid.
I'm not a mother, I don't intend to be soon. But you don't need to be one nor a genious to see that if the kids are little brats with no limits at all, parents only have themselves to blame. Still they don't want to see that. I have seen 4 years old children stealing, I have seem them bullying, I have seen them lying shamelessly and the only thing I was told to do was: keep quiet. Schools are, now, made to stuck knowledge on children's heads and not to try to make the world better trying to do what parents don't want to: raising their children.
Eventually these children will grow up and become people with serious character disorder - and other disorders - and parents will only have themselves to blame even if they can't see that.
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Oh please, don't tell me about this. This sort of things make me very pissed, and trust me, I know what is like (well, I am not a teacher, but I've heard so many stories).
On one hand, teachers here do have certain freedom, because yelling is not considered as a hard-core bad thing (we are a loud nation, after all). But since the day one, each kid in school learns that teacher doesn't have any right to mistreat them or hit them. Fair enough. However, that means a teacher can't even defend herself.
So yes, you hear horrible stories. Even 9 year kids disrespecting their teachers. While those 14 or 15 year old hitting their teachers, bringing knives at school, etc. And teacher doesn't have a right to physically defend even if attacked! And yes, there are many kids who attack teachers. Most (well, at least 60%) of teachers are women. What can a 50 year old woman do to defend herself from a tall teenager who wants to beat her up. Yes, some kids beat teachers! And yes, they are kicked out of school- but it doesn't change much.
And what do their parents do? Nothing. Oh of course there are responsible parents- but their kids are not the ones bullying both their classmates and teachers. There are many rich people who got rich in the past 20 years by doing suspicious business in the dark 90s, and they think they are more important than anyone. They won't teach their kids respect their teachers OR value of education. They say stuff like: "Why would you respect that old woman? She went to university, and had 16 years of education, and now what? She is working for lousy 30 000 dinars (300 euros). I am making that amount of money daily. If she dares to say something to you, son, just tell me and I'll deal with her".
Of course, not all the kids and parents are that way. But there is a problem in some schools when it comes to teacher safety, and it also tells a lot about people's crappy parenting system. Do these people even raise their kids? Do they teach them any moral values? Any respect???
Unfortunately things here aren't any different and the social class doesn't matter. Parents don't care and students care even less. It's awful.
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