Is Spoiling Your Child Effecting Their Education?

At home parents are spoiling their young children and making it harder for teachers at school. It is always good to praise infants and young children but when do you know you’ve went to far? Teachers claim that the number of spoilt kids is increasing in schools and so is the misbehaving.“Little princes and princesses” are taking advantage of their parents’ kindness. They are spoilt and left for the teachers to deal with for the majority of the day. Teachers report that these students are the ones that believe that they don’t have to follow the basic classroom rules and don’t have to obey the teachers. Teachers have to deal with “low-level bad behavior” for example, shouting out in class, temper tantrums and refusal to follow basic classroom rules. Parents think that it’s cute until the child grows older. Most of the time they grow to be the classroom bully and/or aggressive and abusive in the home.

Some parents, especially adults with only one child, have difficulty saying no to their kid(s). To help Steve Sinnott, the boss of the National Union of Teachers, also known as NUT, called for a meeting to help the parents who have a hard time saying “no”. During this meeting, it was brought to the parents’ attention that some children want rules laid down or a form of discipline as a sign of security.

The spoilt children feel as if nothing is their fault and they shouldn’t be punished for anything. They also believe that they don’t have to do anything that bores them or is difficult to a certain extent. Some parents however don’t see anything wrong with this behavior and blame the teachers whenever the child is upset of angry.

Along this argument, the National Union of Teachers also suggest that qualified teachers should run nurseries. Their reason for this is because it would be easier and quicker for a teacher to recognize a student’s development problems and they would be able to take action sooner. General Secretary Steve Sinnott speaks against this saying that the most important thing for children at the nursery ages is to have fun and be open to a variety of ideas. He also says and warns that it would be the worst thing if a new early years curriculum became too “tick box”. A motion was presented saying that play is crucial to the child’s learning because it gives the child more confidence to learn.

By the year 2010, the government plans on making sure that Children’s Centres are lead by early years professionals. For example, Mr.Sinnott speaks that teachers at these levels would be highly skilled and able to use their professional judgement to spot development problems, which contradicts his earlier words. Most nurseries are staffed by low-paid workers who possess only basic qualifications, even though the nurseries are of high cost. The motion that I mentioned earlier stating that by the year 2010 all nurseries will be run by qualified teachers has been modified and has been applied to all government-funded Children’s Centres which offer nursery provision for 3-5 year olds. Hopefully, this will help eliminate the amount of spoilt children and “future bullies”

Here are some sources to check out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7311865.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7310615.stm

Is Spoiling Your Child Effecting Their Education?

At home parents are spoiling their young children and making it harder for teachers at school. It is always good to praise infants and young children but when do you know you’ve went to far? Teachers claim that the number of spoilt kids is increasing in schools and so is the misbehaving.“Little princes and princesses” are taking advantage of their parents’ kindness. They are spoilt and left for the teachers to deal with for the majority of the day. Teachers report that these students are the ones that believe that they don’t have to follow the basic classroom rules and don’t have to obey the teachers. Teachers have to deal with “low-level bad behavior” for example, shouting out in class, temper tantrums and refusal to follow basic classroom rules. Parents think that it’s cute until the child grows older. Most of the time they grow to be the classroom bully and/or aggressive and abusive in the home.

Some parents, especially adults with only one child, have difficulty saying no to their kid(s). To help Steve Sinnott, the boss of the National Union of Teachers, also known as NUT, called for a meeting to help the parents who have a hard time saying “no”. During this meeting, it was brought to the parents’ attention that some children want rules laid down or a form of discipline as a sign of security.

The spoilt children feel as if nothing is their fault and they shouldn’t be punished for anything. They also believe that they don’t have to do anything that bores them or is difficult to a certain extent. Some parents however don’t see anything wrong with this behavior and blame the teachers whenever the child is upset of angry.

Along this argument, the National Union of Teachers also suggest that qualified teachers should run nurseries. Their reason for this is because it would be easier and quicker for a teacher to recognize a student’s development problems and they would be able to take action sooner. General Secretary Steve Sinnott speaks against this saying that the most important thing for children at the nursery ages is to have fun and be open to a variety of ideas. He also says and warns that it would be the worst thing if a new early years curriculum became too “tick box”. A motion was presented saying that play is crucial to the child’s learning because it gives the child more confidence to learn.

By the year 2010, the government plans on making sure that Children’s Centres are lead by early years professionals. For example, Mr.Sinnott speaks that teachers at these levels would be highly skilled and able to use their professional judgement to spot development problems, which contradicts his earlier words. Most nurseries are staffed by low-paid workers who possess only basic qualifications, even though the nurseries are of high cost. The motion that I mentioned earlier stating that by the year 2010 all nurseries will be run by qualified teachers has been modified and has been applied to all government-funded Children’s Centres which offer nursery provision for 3-5 year olds. Hopefully, this will help eliminate the amount of spoilt children and “future bullies”

Here are some sources to check out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7311865.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7310615.stm

Does what you wear actully make a difference?

Today, I am going to be looking at the whole ideas of School Uniforms and what effect they have on the students. Will uniforms cut down on violence? Will they raise grade levels? Will a uniforms actually make a difference in what happens in, and relating, to schools? I plan on looking at both sides of this, but in my opinion, I do not think that a school uniform will drastically change anything. Most arguments for enforcing a law that would force public schools to use uniforms is the idea that it will bring down school violence, they will help grades, and it will help with discrimination and other issues at school. The arguments against the uniforms are that they really wont solve any of the problems that were mentioned above and they take away the creativity of the students.

The main arguments for the installment of uniforms in public schools are mainly focused on the issue of violence and grade levels in schools. Parents and teachers think that by making kids wear uniforms, that it will help decrease the number of violent acts in and around school. The driving idea behind uniforms cutting down on school violence is that it will take away from the gangs. Uniforms will mean that no one has to worry about wearing a certain gangs colors and risk getting attacked for it. People are also saying that uniforms will cut down the number of places you can conceal a weapon if you were to take it into school. Some people believe that if the Columbine students had been forced to wear uniforms, that the attack would not have happened.

‘The disaster at Columbine High School in Colorado a year ago revealed a dress code where students were permitted to wear trench coats, excessive jewelry and make-up, and eccentric hair styles and clothing. The Columbine incident alone stimulates argument that the lack of a dress code may affect the level of safety in a school. If students were not permitted to wear coats, it would be more difficult to conceal weapons. ‘

Another point for the uniforms is that it will raise up grades and help students. I, personally, do not understand this point. Why does what we wear have any effect on our grades? Some people think that if we all wear the same thing, our outfits won’t distract us from our work. I think that the idea of uniforms raising grades is ridiculous. I am with the people that say that uniforms will take away our freedom to express ourselves. That is wrong because in the public schools, that is one of the only things we have left. Our rights in schools are all ready limited and being able to wear what we want is our last thing that prolongs our individuality in our schools. What uniforms does is take a group of people and make them the same. You must dress the same, you must act the same, you are all forced to become just like your neighbor. That is not right. We were all made different and we should all be allowed to express that difference. The only way that we can do that in schools is by what we wear because the schools have all ready taken away our right to say what we want, they have taken away our right to do what we want, write what we want, and so on. As for the issue of violence being solved with uniforms, I don’t think that it will help. If you are in a gang and have an issue with another gang, a uniform is not going to stop you from using violence. This is a great example of a counter to the argument above about the Columbine shooting:

However, a statement could also be made that the incident at Columbine High would have happened anyway, with or without a mandatory dress code for its students.

This just illustrates the point that you don’t really know what is going to happen. If someone really wanted to commit an act of violence in a school, uniform or not, they would find a way. Uniforms won’t stop the violence, they will only cause a slight change in how the acts of violence are committed. So once again, I stand strong with the idea that students on public schools should not be forced to wear uniforms because they won’t raise grades, they won’t stop the violence, and they take away a students right to free expression.

http://muse.widener.edu/~egrozyck/EDControversy/Eppinger.html

http://712educators.about.com/cs/schoolviolence/a/uniforms.htm

http://www.adherents.com/misc/uniforms.html

http://www.gate.net/~rwms/UniformRay.html

http://life.familyeducation.com/violence/education-administration/41077.html