Dear all,
We'll be taking about 'presenting our opinions' this week in class, so in preparation I thought I could post some topics here and ask you to give your opinion.
1. What about indiscipline in schools? We mentioned this during class this week. What do you think could be done to improve it? And improve the educational system in general?
2. What's your opinion of the successive increases in petrol recently? Where will it end? Should the government intervene? Will we end up going everywhere by public transport?
See you Saturday.
Carolyn
2 comments:
Hello
As you know, this a very complex topic and I'm not an expert about it, but I have got two clildren and, naturally, I think about it a lot of times.
Then,about the indiscipline in the schools, I think, that is the reflex from what happens in the close family.
In my generation, our upbringing was very strict. In the great majority of families, the relationship between the parents and their children was quite formal and the parents and grandparents exercised their authority over their children and all the close family recognised that like a "legal" duty. At the school, the same behaviour was watched between the teachers and the students, where, by far, the rules and students'duties were clearly defined .
But, all those behaviours and rules were too sufocating and then whenever the economy grew, the standard of living was improved and changed, parents passed to give to their children much more things than they have received and, at the same time, both father and mother started to work longer hours than in the past, leaving their children alone at home for too hours. As a result, their authority have weakened little by little.
Besides this, more and more children passed to study and had improved a strong consciousness of their own rigts...
I hope, on the future, we'll have got a better society, but, for that, the parents will need to be parents and educators and the schools'governance must invest on training their teachers, on introducing higher innovation in the schools and on helping families badly structured, with psilogy experts.
Bye. I'm looking forward a new proposal from you to think about.
Isabel
Hi Isabel,
Sorry I've taken so long to get back to you but I just assumed that as nobody had replied to this by our lesson the the 7th that nobody was going to. I completely agree with what you say - the indiscipline we see nowadays has a lot to do with economic growth and the fact that parents are out working and children are left to their own devices some of the time. Where will it all end I ask myself?
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