Save the Rod and Spoilt the Child

Singapore
March 8, 2007 3:58am CST
Shall we as teachers met out the disciplinary actions or forget about it and pretend nothing has ever happended at all. With nowadays, parents being overprotective of their son/daughter, is it a good sign or bad sign???
2 responses
• Malaysia
8 Mar 07
I agree with you that now parent are overprotective, if this happen it's bad thing, for me when parent is over protective even their son/daughter broke the rule, their still put the false on teacher shoulder.. THAT NOT FAIR, most of parent like this working in profesional sector so they think they know all about the education and their play down aur role as a teacher.. They forget one thing, who make their to be so succes? who teach them to read?, who teach them to count and what ever.. of couse teacher, so my conclusion, protective our child is good but please dont be over protective this will be not good for you children if their don't have enough dicipline. that all
• Singapore
9 Mar 07
I think we should highlight this behaviour of their children in school to their parents and let their parents decided whether they should punish their kids or pretend nothing has ever happened. Parents should play a big role in their kids upbringing and not the teachers.
• Sri Lanka
14 Mar 07
Parents are over protective these days, but i think punishments should be given, but looking at the student, so that he learns a lesson, not punishments that will just help the teacher get away, for e.g if one student is misbehaving in class, chasing him out, is the best option so tht teacher can get on wit her work, and it is actually a loss for the child. a punishment should be given so that he does not misbehave again.. i know talking is easy, but that is wat we should try