Article suggests gender quotas and scholarships. Has anyone considered treating, and paying, teachers like the vital professionals they are?
Article suggests gender quotas and scholarships. Has anyone considered treating, and paying, teachers like the vital professionals they are?
That’s a good list, except I would have thought that number 4 is an important responsibility for teachers? Probably the most important thing kids need to learn is how to behave in an acceptable manner. We can’t rely on all parents to be able to do that unless we start putting draconian restrictions on parenting. So, it has to be part of teachers jobs.
Maybe there just needs to be better processes in place to handle problematic children, especially in high school.
The truth is I don’t think the problem lies exclusively with parents. It probably does to some extent, but I genuinely think there must be something (and I use the nebulous “something” very deliberately. I have no idea what that something could be) in our broader society that is leading to the problem, for it to be so much more of a notable problem today than it was 40 years ago.
Regardless of the cause though, no, it isn’t a teacher’s duty to single-handedly fix the failure to bring up the kids right. When students don’t respect their teachers, and parents don’t respect them enough to back them when conflict does arise, it’s not even possible for them to do anything meaningful.
I wonder - and I do mean wonder, I’m not putting this forward as a firm theory - if the kids pick up on contempt for teachers from their parents. Certainly a lot of people either look down on teachers as lesser or alternatively see them as invalid authority figures.
I also think that there is a drift away from community and family raising children towards the parent being the only valid authority. This has been a century long drift and again I don’t know how much this factors in.