"Adults and institutions have become uncomfortable about articulating values or enforcing rules and consequences".
I remember stories form the older grownups as a young child. Most of the stories which included bad children were whipped by the teacher, the community, and most importantly, the parents. Now days it has become uncomfortable about articulating values or enforcing rules and consequences.
I believe now days it has become uncomfortable about articulating values or teaching more clearly values that should be learned at home because parents haven't the time for their children anymore. Now days kids are not been taught these values at home, so therefore their bad behavior is spread throughout the community and his or her life.
Teachers have problems with the children because the simple fact that children have respect for adults. Also children want to be grown so much, they don't like to hear anyone tell them what to do. I don't put all the blame on the parents and children, but also the teachers.
Teachers who love their job, and work for the love of teaching and kids, tend more to find out the problem of the child, those teachers not only press on the issue of academics, they also teach children life's values. Other teachers, who do their job just for the money, tend to not care about what the child learns as long as they get their paycheck. That's part of the reasons why a child may disrespect the teacher.
Another thing I blame is television, no America showers and crowns rappers, drug dealers, and children now get the wrong idea of the concept of things. Children think it is cool for them to sell drugs, use profanity, do drugs, and disrespect the authority. If their role models are portraying this image to the kids, what do the children have to work from? Kids are so quick to hit a teacher or pull a gun on the authorities, teachers are now scared to discipline.
All in all, I believe if the parents teach values from day one, I believe the child could go out into the community and be more respectable to the adults.
