I have to reckon why I am tougher on kids than adults.
I guess it is because those formative years are so important. So much of what they are at that time really has an impact.
When it comes to certain skills, I learned that I don't HAVE IT.
It means that I was not a natural in a lot of the subjects. It means that if I didn't work, it wouldn't MAKE IT.
I learned that somethings I can't pick up, but if I wanted them bad enough, I could work for them.
I still have to struggle and keep working at things. Not all of it comes easy.
If I didn't have a good framework then, I think I would most definitely have a much rougher life.
So yeah, it's too bad that I'm stricter on the kids, but if they're given to anything less than excellence, life is going to give them all kinds of unpleasant surprises.
Why did we start becoming their 'friends'? Why do they rule the roost? Why are teachers and administrators suddenly the bad guys?
And I am saying it with all due respect for people who were actually wronged and deserved to be treated better.
I am not talking about those valid complaints.
I am talking about teachers who tell me they don't have the freedom to teach, nor the backing to keep the discipline, principals who seem bound to all these different rules and regulations. Some principals don't back the teachers, or cave in too much to the parents.
Again - ladies - please understand this is not an indictment on valid complaints.