The problem with schools…
This is problem: Schools hire good people.
I know you are all (the two of you at least) are thinking that I am crazy, but here is my logic.
I hate that many of my students don’t take responsibility and come & remember to take their late test and do their missing work. So, I go and hunt them. Even after I have done this, most of them still don’t do the homework (even though I hand it to them while they are sitting in study hall) and all I have really accomplished is enabling their behavior. In many ways, I am just perpetuating the behavior that I hate!
Why do I do this? Because I am a good person, I don’t want to see people fail. This problem is pervasive in our school & in all schools. Teachers and school employees enable the behavior that we hate because we care about students and think we are helping them. Maybe we are really hurting them by taking all of the responsibility off of their shoulders? At what point/age do we assume that people should start being responsible for themselves? Does it change for special needs kids? (I guess that is rhetorical, because it has to legally whether it should or not.)
I don’t have the answers. If I did I would be rich and writing books. I really don’t think anyone has the answers, or else we would all know what to do. I often wonder if I can handle this job.
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Tags: School, Student Responsibility, Teaching
