Why Hinder Orderly Education? Letter Of The Week From May 30

A May 23 article says sending a child to “think time” for “too long” violates the child’s rights and parents will be “monitoring” think time.

The average think time is eight minutes.

I have lived long enough to observe that newborn human children are not civilized beings. They scream and become angry if their needs are not immediately met.

They would kill to fill their desires if they were able. I don’t understand why parents would want to hinder efforts at their own children’s education and civilization. This brings to mind some questions:

What does the word “teacher” mean? How is a teacher to control inappropriate behavior in the classroom?

What about the rest of the students’ rights to a complete, useful education? What about each student’s right to an equal share of the teacher’s attention and expertise?

What about my right to have my tax dollars used effectively to educate my children? What about the teachers’ rights to work in a non-hostile, non-threatening environment?

What about the disruptive student’s right to be correctly trained and educated?

These people are children. The reason children have adults to care for and educate them is because they are too young and inexperienced in life to run their own lives.

If children were small adults, they wouldn’t need parents and teachers. xxxx