Comments on: What about accountability? http://thefamilyschooldoghouse.com/2010/01/16/what-about-accountability/ At-risk teens and dog training, learning and the brain Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Deb Kearney http://thefamilyschooldoghouse.com/2010/01/16/what-about-accountability/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Deb Kearney Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:38:45 +0000 http://thefamilyschooldoghouse.com/?p=186#comment-46 Sanctioned bullying does not create mature individuals who tend to be responsible for their own behavior. On the contrary, it simply creates adult bullies for the workplace who believe it is their job to police everyone else rather than focusing on the task that they were hired to complete. We have enough bullies in this world, yet school systems throughout the country are fostering a system of group bullying by offering rewards when no problems are reported. This means that a child is forced to endure whatever is dealt out by classmates because the risk of asking for help from adults is too great. That risk is, of course, the wrath of the entire class at being denied some movie or ice cream party. Foolishness. Children do not need to force each other to obey the rules. That is why adults are raising them - or supposed to be. The other obvious outcome is a person who appears to always follow the rules, says all the right things, dresses the right way - and is the greatest sneak you could ever imagine! Thank you, no! We have enough sociopaths already! Currently, brutal dictatorships are being violently overthrown throughout the world. A person can only take so much oppression before revolt is imminent. Sanctioned bullying does not create mature individuals who tend to be responsible for their own behavior. On the contrary, it simply creates adult bullies for the workplace who believe it is their job to police everyone else rather than focusing on the task that they were hired to complete.

We have enough bullies in this world, yet school systems throughout the country are fostering a system of group bullying by offering rewards when no problems are reported. This means that a child is forced to endure whatever is dealt out by classmates because the risk of asking for help from adults is too great. That risk is, of course, the wrath of the entire class at being denied some movie or ice cream party. Foolishness. Children do not need to force each other to obey the rules. That is why adults are raising them – or supposed to be.

The other obvious outcome is a person who appears to always follow the rules, says all the right things, dresses the right way – and is the greatest sneak you could ever imagine! Thank you, no! We have enough sociopaths already!

Currently, brutal dictatorships are being violently overthrown throughout the world. A person can only take so much oppression before revolt is imminent.

]]> By: Gene Lysick http://thefamilyschooldoghouse.com/2010/01/16/what-about-accountability/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Gene Lysick Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:43:32 +0000 http://thefamilyschooldoghouse.com/?p=186#comment-17 My son attended TFFS from 5/03 to 6/05. Although as of late he looks at the stay as a punitive measure, (chatter on facebookd about former students and their gripes) I as a parent look upon his stay as a positive one. He admits that I had no choice and does not hold it against me. I think secretly he knows that the school and the accountability it provided did him some good. Now here out in the real world the word accountability is a rare commodity that he chooses to ignore. It is all up to him now and a large part of his denial and laziness for his inaction and lack of productivity is imaturity and there is nothing out there that can help him with that except his own desire to want to change. In the meantime, a parent waits. Gene My son attended TFFS from 5/03 to 6/05. Although as of late he looks at the stay as a punitive measure, (chatter on facebookd about former students and their gripes) I as a parent look upon his stay as a positive one.

He admits that I had no choice and does not hold it against me. I think secretly he knows that the school and the accountability it provided did him some good. Now here out in the real world the word accountability is a rare commodity that he chooses to ignore.

It is all up to him now and a large part of his denial and laziness for his inaction and lack of productivity is imaturity and there is nothing out there that can help him with that except his own desire to want to change.

In the meantime, a parent waits.

Gene

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