The way we were when it
came to educating a child was an entire community thing, all the elements for a
holistic human being were working together to create what one may be able to
classify as a model citizen. It could be personified as the school, church and
the community working with the family for the betterment of the society in
directly but directly for the child.
I believe that all the stake holders
understood this vision and built their vision and mission statement around this
prime objective of educating the child for a better tomorrow. The motto of the national Parent and teacher
association is “school and home working toward the betterment of the
child” proving that if all stake holder worked together we would
a better society and it was working, we
may not have had a perfect utopian society but life back then gave hope for a
brighter tomorrow.
School days were truly
happy days, teacher taught for the love of it. Family, friends and neighbor did
their part to assist each other to bring up their kids; no child could break
school or classes without someone blowing the whistle on them. Disrespect was
handled with a united front, there was one thinking unanimous to all, it was an
unbreakable force and no child could surmise a way to penetrate it.
Until now, I don’t know
where we went wrong; maybe it was too much lick vetted out my our parents or
the long winded berating then meted out to us, but then again it must have been
the hash punishment dole out to one without explanation or question of
authority that made the baby boomer of our time change the way they trained up
their children. But our society has change for the worse, the united front was
broken and the child became the leader making this new generation though more
educated, supposedly more civilize and cultured have proven to be more immoral,
lawless, selfish and unkind to each other than ever. Crimes and murders are on
a rise with most or if not all are young person under the age of thirty; tell
me where did we go wrong.
I sat in a meeting and
heard the principal blame everyone from teachers, church and parent for the way
things are except him. But he is the head of the system, and if he can’t do his
small part then what is to become of the school, why can’t we not see that we
are all a part of the problem. We are the ones who broke it then we are the
ones to fix it.
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