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Well, this is a very good thread. Points for and against both the kid and the teacher but mostly for the teacher I noticed. Me, I would have told the kid "next time you stay in the hall outside the classroom door until after the anthem is finished then come in".
But the bottom line is that it is utimately up to the parents and their influence or lack of it on their children. I am a teacher as well, and unfortunately at my school it seems like the teachers have to be the parents as well.. Many parents "think" their kids are angels and blame us if their kid acts up or gets into trouble. We are "bad teachers" they say. There is no discipline at home and as a result, the kids have no discipline in controlling their words or actions. Nothing gets your juices boiling like a 15 year old telling you to "Fuck off". The point is parents need to spend some quality time with their children and assist them in their roller coaster of life called adolescence.
Here is something I found.
"The greatest deficit in America isn’t the trade deficit. It’s the attention deficit of our children. The average child gets 14 minutes of attention a day from each of his parents. So the greatest thing you can give a kid is time spent listening to him or her."
-– Jack Canfield
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