UK schoolteacher Mike Beale has had enough:
Education expert Mike Beale said teachers are increasingly having to tell mums and dads to stand up to their kids...Speaking at an education conference in Edinburgh yesterday, Beale said: "Heads are too often at the centre of trying to educate parents that it is okay to say no to their children."It is essential to draw lines for those children beyond which they are not permitted to go.
"It is not essential that families are democracies. My heart still sinks when mum or dad say to me that they have made a decision, they don't really like it, but Maggie Rose really wants this, that, or the other and they are afraid not to agree.
"After all, we have to be best friends...
He added: "Roots come from discipline and appreciating that the pain of hard work is nothing like the pain of disappointment, from lines being drawn and by not being afraid to say no."
Bravo. But will parents listen?
Posted by kswygert at October 3, 2005 06:38 AM