JSThane wrote:I'm not.RoyGBiv wrote:I'm good with 2 items...
Too bad.. and tellingly... they're the last 2 on the list.
8. Make our schools safer with new resource officers and counselors, better emergency response plans, and more nurturing school climates.
9. Ensure quality coverage of mental health treatment, particularly for young people.
I see #8 as another excuse to poke the camel nose of social workers with agendas even further into children's and parents' home lives. I'm especially suspicious of any "counselors" they might hire, as well as how they plan to make school "more nurturing" through any means other than staying away. Gov't involvement is -never- "nurturing."
And #9 sounds like yet another way to get our kids on either some "counseling" program run by meddlesome idiots, or doping them to the gills with psychotropic drugs. We already have kids drugged up with Adderol all over; the stronger "mood balancing" drugs not only wreak havoc on the developing biochemistry of the childhood and teenage brain, they don't allow the kids the chance to learn how to control themselves and their own emotions. I know every teenager I've ever met would certainly qualify as "bipolar," at least until they finished puberty and the random, wild mood swings that produces, and yet we turned out just fine.
What we actually need are adults willing to teach not just classroom material, but responsibility, discipline, and self-control, three things sadly missing from much of today's youth and teaching culture, and we need parents who will stand up to administrators who refuse to allow this.
Bring back discipline. Bring back punishment. Let the kids fight it out so long as there's no injuries, and then come down like a ton of bricks on the instigator, not the victor, and certainly not on the victim, even if he won. Bring back the nuns with rulers if you have to. Oh, and kick the "Department of Education" completely out of the schools, even if you lose federal funding.
I grew up in a bit of "transition" between discipline in schools and not, and I certainly saw a huge difference in how those around me acted.
I like this!