Does school do more harm to kids than good?

i find an extreme moral and ethical disconnect with young kids today unlike anything i can remember. fortunately for people that can afford it, we have private schools.
 
i really find this internet porn and text sex thing very damaging to kids. part of growing up is facing fears and allowing yourself the maturity to grow as a person.

growing up in the late 70's and 80's, you actually had to approach a girl to ask them to a movie or something. it was scary as hell for a 12-15 year old. if you wanted to see nudity, you either stole your dads playboy or looked through a squigly lines on the blocked out hbo channel.

now nudity and sex are everywhere. kids are cowards, all they have to do is text their friends. texting and iming is far from speaking to someone. there is an element of pretend in a written text. now all these kids are having internet sex and passing around nude photos of themselves...good lord....i dont care what anyone says, that has got to be extremely damaging for a developing mind.
 
Based on just a cell phone? So they could be perfect parents in the other 10,000 areas of parenting, but if they give their child a cell phone they're "bad"?
 
Based on just a cell phone? So they could be perfect parents in the other 10,000 areas of parenting, but if they give their child a cell phone they're "bad"?
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Calling someone a bad parent may be harsh but really what does a kid need with a cell phone? your job as a parent is to keep tabs on who your kids friends are, who is influencing them, etc. what does a kid need with a cell phone? i think it has been established that kids do some questionable things with their cell phone.

i got along fine without a cell phone, we didnt have them. are you your kids buddy...do you want to be their friend and give them everything they want?? or are you their parent, trying to raise them properly?
 
Yeah, god forbid they should need to contact you if there was an emergency.
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so your kid is only allowed to use the phone in the event of a emergency?
 
Stereotype much?
Are you a parent?
Because it's apparent that you have no clue as to what parenting entails.
It's called trust. I trust my daughter to behave, and in return, she gets to do awesome ****, like skiing for Spring Break.
She knows that if she breaks that trust, she gets to sit on the couch for her vacation.
She knows to choose her friends at school wisely, and they all are equally well-behaved.
And her public school is quite excellent, kthxbai.
 
Stat...dude, it's a blog.
I could tell you horror stories about my youngest brother and his home schooled kids. My nephew is an ill-mannered lil' **** to his father, and calls him a failure. But it's still just an anecdote, just like lil' Miss Mandi Homemaker's tripe.
Every public school my daughter has been to in Hays CISD has been exemplary. She's A-B Honor Roll this year. Back in her earlier years, she had regular D's due to her dyslexia.
But the reading programs they have got her back on track, and she loves to read now.
We'll drive to New Mexico or Colorado and she'll have her nose stuck in a book for 2-3 hundred miles.
We've been real pleased with Hays.
 
We live in Katy which has one of the best ISDs in the state, and we pulled our two elementary-age boys out last January to home school them. We know what's going on with them all day, they are progressing faster than they did in public school, and they have flexibility during the day as to the timing of their studies (do math now, or later, whatever you want as long as it gets done, etc).

Homeschooling is largely misunderstood, I think, as many people assume there is some religious reason for it, which is true for many homeschoolers but certainly not for us. It's a lot of work but has turned out to be a great decision. Our boys love it.
 
The writer of the blog either has some of the unluckiest kids alive or, more likely, is a crazy parent.

My guess: she's crazy. Therefore her kids are crazy. Therefore they get picked on. And therefore they respond in inappropriate ways that make the conflicts worse. The mother then hears what she wants to hear, and ignores what she wants to ignore when dealing with bus drivers and principals. It's a vicious cycle, but it all starts with a crazy mom who writes the phrase "I refuse to allow my kids to be someone's victim" in the middle of a 2000 word victimization manifesto.

Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe she just has the unluckiest kids alive.
 
I was going to say it depends on the school, how strong the principal is in maintaining discipline in the school, how reactive the parent and child are, and how well the teachers maintain discipline in their classrooms.

If her children go crazy everytime some real or imagined slight happens, the child opened the door for future harrassment. They will do it just to see he/she go nuts. They will do the same to adults just to evoke the same reaction.

A very tame example is what we did to our civics teacher my senior year in high school. He was a basketball coach and we discovered all we had to do to make him not teach civics was to get him to talk about basketball. It was on. I had a ball in that class. I can't remember learning anything about civics but we had a ball talking about basketball.
 
I don't think there's a universal answer to the thread's question. School does more harm than good to some kids. While for other kids, it's the opposite.

If you're a kid who fucks up at home, you're probably not going to get paddled.
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Whether it is school, a cell phone or what, it is your reponsibility to teach and educate your children on many different topics, included but not limited too socially acceptable behavior, respect for all people, and to think for themselves. Whether they agree with me or someone else, rational analytical thought. They may be right or they may be wrong but to understand how they got to that decision is a paramount function of parenting that is missing in the world today.

Understand that if you hit and beat up Billy the Bully what may or may not be gained from doing that, before you attack make sure you understand the consequences of your actions, good and bad.
 
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