With most UK children going back to school over the next few days, this really tickled me.
So many parents just don’t want to take responsibility for raising their kids. Some people seem to expect the schools to keep their progeny in line and ensure that they get good grades without the grown ups closest to them actually having to put in any effort at home. To make a child sit down and complete homework or actually get out of bed to attend class in the first place requires a certain amount of confrontation and enforcement.
Too many adults just don’t want to have to deal with any of the more unpleasant activities associated with parenting and it’s far easier to kick up a stink at the school’s ineptitude than actually remonstrate with their own offspring.
Some schools are fighting back… and more power to them.
You can play it without sound as there are subtitles.
Brilliant!!!! It’s even worse here in the U.S. I had a teaching credential that I’ve never used because student teaching cured me of any thought I had of teaching. When I was doing my student teaching (20 years ago), I’d go home and tell my kids, “If you ever speak to a teacher the way I was today, don’t bother to come home because I will make you the sorriest children on the planet.” My kids’ job was to go to school sit down, shut up, listen, learn and respect their elders. Their teachers always complimented me on their excellent manners as well as their work. Even in college my son’s swimming coach told me that he was the most polite young man he ever coached. Yeah, they had some lousy teachers at times but I held my ground and told them it was good practice for when they grew up and had a lousy boss.
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Oh dear, dear, dear! That strange noise you can hear is me, in hysterics.
I adore the last instruction in particular: “If you want this in another language …”
It’s just a shame that there are so many errors in the visuals that accompany it. I’m not going to make any link between that and the education system …
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Oh Kay! I so agree with you. Sometimes my kids would come home and recount things that had been said in class and I would have to tear them off a strip for disrespect. But then their father would come home and agree with them that the teacher was at fault, based purely on their assessment of the situation! To be fair, my kids are polite most of the time but, if they think the teacher is wrong, they will disagree vociferously. In some ways, this isn’t such a bad thing in terms of looking out for themselves in later life but it goes against every lesson on respect that I have tried to teach.
Yes, there are some very bad teachers. In fact one Government minister over here is famous for saying that every school has to have one so that children learn how to deal with ineptitude as they get older! But there is a strange concept creeping in that respect should not be given automatically to authority figures, it has to be earned. And that’s a big reason for the social problems that we have today. A combination of poor examples of authority and parents being too lazy to enforce polite behaviour is a major contributory factor.
LOL, I suspect that it was not the school who put up those subtitles :) But it’s just such a great clip, I had to share it :)
It’s a good laugh, it makes a point, and I really wish that some school had done it — but it’s not true, sadly. It’s a revival of an old internet hoax:
http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/palisades.asp
Boooooo! Oh, Keith, that’s such a shame but thanks for putting me straight and, even as a hoax, it’s still very funny :)
Looks like Keith beat me to the snopes link, but I was living in California at the time, and believe me the message would have been appropriate. There was a new attendance policy that caused a huge percentage of the school to fail that semester, and rather than pushing their kids to go to school, parents threatened to sue the school, this in the already almost impossible to run California public school system.
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What was so bad about the California schools sytem, Rhac?
It sort of depends on where you are in California, it’s a huge state so the issues change from place to place, but they are underfunded and over crowded is the short answer. there are problems with violence in the major cities, at the high school where I grew up there were violent altercations every day, race issues, problems with gangs. The first year I remember a girl from my grade getting pregnant was when I was 11. There are issues with meeting the needs of immigrants, some classes teach in as many as 8 languages which is costly and time consuming.
Basically the message was someones response to criticisms and even lawsuits the school was facing because of a truancy policy they instituted where if a student missed 10 or more days (from a 90ish day semester) they would fail that semester. Even though all parents and students were told at the beginning of the school year, when a large percentage of the students failed, everyone got litigious.
Truancy is one of the things seriously affecting California public schools though, it reduces funding to a school when the kids start missing classes.
But, the US is sort of lacking in education until we get to the college level, then it sort of seems to straighten out. It costs way to much, but you can actually learn again.
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Sounds awful, Rhac, altho I think teenage pregnancy and truancy are just as prevalent over here and, increasingly, problems with immigrant children not speaking English.
Yeah, I have to imagine it’s tough to run a school anywhere.
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