Reply #104: Indeed ours does. It may depend on time frame of the experience [View All]

[ProgressiveProfessor]

My experience is over the last 10 years or so teaching in public schools by both my wife and myself. When I got on with UC, my wife remained teaching in high schools.

In your anecdotes the bully doesn't make any significant changes. I agree that is the predominate course of action reinforced by the common parental attitude that their child is perfect. However, in a small minority, the parents may be smarter than that and willing to listen. I've seen it happen, but it was indeed quite rare.

I have seen parents sit there in shock when the situation is described to them with the child in tears turn to their male child and tell them to man up. Blew me away, but when WWF and UFC are as popular as their are in society, perhaps I should not have been surprised. Also that school was not exactly in a upper class area or district.

On You Tube there are examples of parents getting involved in physical altercations with students and at times other parents. Unheard of until recently. Threats like that happen more than many realize and it was threatened in the scuffle my daughter was involved in.

Civility in the schools is in the toilet. Any number of reasons are given and excuses made, but its clearly there. Having been there, I can not blames the schools or the lack of funding. Its outside barbarism getting in past the school yard gate.