Kindergarderners being kicked out for playing cops and robbers on the play ground and using their fingers as a gun? Doodles on your papers about a teacher you didn't like and having to go to counseling? Having a teacher tell you to write what's on your mind and then get kicked out of school? Bringing something in for show and tell and having it called a weapon? (a deer antler) Do you think things have gone a tad crazy here?
2007-10-22 11:03:13 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I just wonder what other problem they are creating? We went through big boys don't cry and nice girls don't do that. To don't hurt their psyches and they think they deserve to be a CEO straight out of highschool....to where normal things are now crazy? Makes me wonder.....
2007-10-22 11:19:40 · update #1
I agree with Isotope....if I'm going to be charged with a crime for just a thought or doodle....may as well commit the crime.....what are these people creating when your thoughts and feelings are now criminal...just as if you did it.? Heck...we have a filter in our minds to seperate thought from action. Block it up and that's when the wonderful neighbor turns into a psycho.
2007-10-22 11:41:43 · update #2
There is a going to be one screwed up generation(s) of kids in this world. Emotionally abused children who are told constantly that everything they think, feel and do is "wrong" and "evil" get the message they are "flawed" and "not normal". This is something that can affect a person for the rest of their lives, affecting every aspect of their lives from careers to relationships, coping with anger, frustrations, loss, etc.
This generation is in fact a generation of emotionally abused children. Children are being punished and shamed for just being children.
We have swung from "indulging the litttle darlings" no matter what they did, in the name of freedom of expression, to "wrong thinking", shades of Mao.
I shudder to think of how screwed up these kids are going to be when they become adults. I dont know what kind of thinking has spawned this idiocy, and ignorance.
Obviously a whole lot of morons who dont have children are making these rules and decisions.
2007-10-22 11:28:31 · answer #1 · answered by isotope2007 6 · 9⤊ 5⤋
With zero tolerance, there's no other mindset than seeing it as 100% intolerance if a child is deemed as having or being a problem. With such diversity amoungst the students, families & teachers...I wonder how the federal guidelines for education got so blurred? The rule is that every child must receive an education, no matter what their problems are. Some children do better in smaller classroom settings that become available to them AFTER they are seen as a "rulebreaker" or "in need" of counseling or special tutoring. Unfortunately, most parents don't know how to work the school system in order to get their children the education that is available to them. Instead, they blindly accept what is handed out to them & their children, without question or representation. Zero tolerance simply means that the options are now in a building that seems to have a hidden address on an unknown street! School boards have answers, yet far too many parents ever dare to stand before them & ask the needed question for their children's future. A parent who has no time to look for or ask for help usually passes this type of mentality on to their own children. Questioning those so-called authority figures should be the norm & not the thing that gets a parent OR child suspended or ignored. Zero tolerance is being abused & the ACLU seems to be running the show in the largely homosexually based teachers unions. Most parants have no idea just how many lesbians have taken over the schools on an administrative level. Even the male teachers know not to question their authority for fear of becoming their next targets & getting a pay cut & a write up!
2007-10-22 14:04:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Oh my god, that is so creepy and looks awful! I swear I'm going to have nightmares tonight, that not only looks creepy but it's really disgusting. Utterly repulsive, I must say! lol I really need to quit frontin'. I think it's "totally radical"! (I can't believe I just said that!). But on a serious note, I really think they look cool. I remember the first time I had seen that picture (on photobucket) it freaked me out, and for a second I thought it was their real eyes and not just anime eyes. But that thought didn't last for long until one of my friends called me out on my stupidity, and making me come to a realization that it was just drawn on the eyelids, making it appear as though they were real or anything of that sort. After that, I thought it was really cool. From then on I always wanted to try that, but didn't know how. Although I think it looks really cool, I don't think anyone should ever step out of the house like that. It would be a fun experiment, but would be quite bizarre if ever worn while out. Edit: The 3rd one looks like a barbie doll, is that even a real person? The 3rd just looks weird and disgusting. The 4th and 5th look scary and funny as hell. lol! Thanks, now I'm going to show my siblings the 5th one, that will scare the sh*t out of them!
2016-05-24 19:59:51 · answer #3 · answered by patrice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's very difficult to be a child in school now. There are so many things going on, there's barely time to do their studies, let alone learn how to socialize and get along with others. One has to wonder how much education can be gained when children have to worry about every move they make. I feel badly for parents too, schools and parents use to work together for the best interest of the child. Now it's one pitted against the other, with more and more rules that neither can keep up with.
2007-10-22 11:40:21 · answer #4 · answered by luvspbr2 6 · 8⤊ 1⤋
You are right things have gotten out of control. Kids need to be children not little prisoners! What would they have done to us ,, no seat-belts, not helmets, using sticks for guns 'killing' each other and worst of all not coming home until the streetlights came on.
Now if you call a parent because their kid did something you get a lecture about how their little genius could not have done anything wrong. Back in 'the day' if another parent had to yell at you boy did you 'get it' when you got home.
It is insane!
2007-10-22 11:40:34 · answer #5 · answered by luteachris 4 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Zero tolerance removes decision-making from the process. It is something to hide behind. It makes adults look stupid. In one case in which I was involved, a student athlete was suspended for three days for something which the courts found him innocent! Incredible. The administrators never talked to me and I was the only adult who witnessed the entire event. Soon thereafter I retired from coaching. I would never again consider coaching for any club or school system with a zero tolerance policy.
2007-10-23 04:34:38 · answer #6 · answered by Salmonidfool 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely ridiculous with the little ones. However, last week we had teens bring weapons to school (guns), this should be stopped immediately. When I lived in South Florida, kids had to go through metal detectors to get into school. Times certainly have changed. There is no age of innocence anymore.
2007-10-22 11:10:30 · answer #7 · answered by slk29406 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋
I had a taste of craziness on the schoolground on this Thursday past. A bully decided to swear at and put down my middle grandson for chasing seagulls. He said "You would never know that you are in Grade 6, when you act like such a stupid idiot." My grandson came back towards me dejected and dragging. So I walked over to this bully (who was easily twice the size of my grandson) and from 15 feet away, told him that I didn't appreciate him swearing at my grandson and trying to bully him, and that if it happened again I would go straight to the principal.
Well I got a lecture from bully's Mom the next day about "scaring" her son so badly that "he didn't want to come back to school". And the "threats" that I made traumatized him as well. I pointed out to the mother (who was larger than me, which is a feat in itself) that the only "threats" involved was my promise to go directly to the principal next time. And that the charges of "scaring" and "intimidation" were completely bogus and obviously thought up after the fact to add weight to his lies. Because even though on the day he admitted to using those swear words against my grandson, he flatly refused to admit it to his mother, even though the other boy (who had not been involved at all, except he was having lunch with the bully) admitted that he had heard his friend say those things.
The upshot was that the mother tried to tell me that I am not to SAY anything to her son any more. And I said "I am sorry, but you are not going to get any promise like that from a parent who has to watch your son bullying their child" and left it at that. I absolutely DID promise that if I ever saw her son being a bully on the schoolground again that I would take it straight to the principal.
Was I wrong?
2007-10-22 12:25:23 · answer #8 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
A tad crazy? I think we need to figure out just what constitutes a threat and what is a weapon and have guidelines that students and parents and teachers can all agree on.
2007-10-22 11:09:41 · answer #9 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Madness has ruled in the classrooms for some time now, it is becoming impossible to say or do anything without someone finding it unacceptable and for goodness sake don't take an interest in children unless you wish to be branded a paedophile.
2007-10-22 11:09:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it has gone too far! My children have been in trouble with zero tolerance policies. One problem with older children--you are not suposed to defend yourself against a bully anymore.
You are supposed to have time to tell an adult before you get beat up. The slightest punch (or tap) in self-defense, and you can be "juvenile delinquented."
2007-10-22 11:21:13 · answer #11 · answered by Brigid O' Somebody 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋