Oct
Lack of Compassion
We are running a park group for the home school crew. We meet once per week at a local park and play. I am having one kiddo each week plan a group activity that everyone participates in and I put together a mini lesson that we do as a group. My lessons have been on leadership. I chose this topic because I really feel that kids are lacking in this area a lot. Parents baby their kids or spoil them rotten. Leaving them unable to handle themselves or worse yet incapable of being accountable for their actions in any way. As a parent, that is one thing that I have always vowed to teach my kids. That each day they have choices to make. They are in charge of those choices just like they are responsible for the result of those choices. So far, its worked out well with my kids. Check back with me in about 20 years and I will update you again.
In any case, at park group, we have a dynamic group of kids. They range in age from 3 to 15 years. Yet, each week, I watch all of these kids play an organized game together. The younger kids are helped by the older kids. They all laugh. They all respect each other and they all get along. There are no fights. No bullies. No uglies. The park is peaceful….until the after school care program arrives.
Yesterday, our kids were done with the organized game part of our time and they were just playing and visiting. The after care kids arrived and all hell broke loose in our peaceful park. There were fights. Hitting, pinching and the teachers were screaming non stop. At one point, one little girl came over to one of the teachers in tears - crying that she wanted her mommy. The teacher told her to grow up and get over it. Literally. The little one was 6 at most. We overheard the fact that this little girl was new to aftercare. She probably was overwhelmed by the chaos. All she needed was a hug and some nice words. What she got was not anything close to that. Our park group kids all stopped dead in their tracks when this teacher started yelling at this little girl. When she finished the berated hollerfest, I quietly leaned over to the two oldest of our group who were near me and I said “I am ohhh so glad that we home school”. I don’t think I have meant that more than I did right then.
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Darnit all! I had written a long comment and was blabbing away, I’m too darn lazy/sick to type it again, just know that I am not happy with that teacher one bit, had she said that to my child, I would have had her head.
I know exactly what you mean. When my kids were in public school, you could walk down the halls and hear all the teachers screaming at the kids. Is this how are kids are being spoke to, real nice!!!!
I would have been on a cell phone right then and there calling whatever school it was and bitching. My kid or not that lady was just plain wrong and an ugly kind of wrong.
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I have noticed that my grandchildren have taken on a whole new attitude since they became homeschooled, perhaps its because the parents care more about their children and their education.
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