A while back there was an email hubbub involving some parents from my kid's school. It was really between just two people, but they both kept choosing to reply all. It was not appreciated and someone finally cut them off.
One of the people is a professor or some kind of instructor, at a university. The other person is a stay at home mom. She may have been involved in the business world at some point, but I don't think she is at the moment. Anyway, professor guy started it, sort of. He had an objection that I thought he raised in a calm and clear voice. Mom objected to his objection and reacted emotionally and with confusion. He didn't react as well the second time as he did the first time; now he was mad. Unsurprisingly, she also got madder. And this is where she ticked me off. At this point (and for reasons I'm completely clueless about because this comment has nothing to do with the debate) she told him, "I guess it's only in the real world that people are accountable for their performance, not like in education where you can just bumble/muddle/something like that along and no one calls you out." (quote not exact, it was a few months ago)
As I listen to the debate on how to bail out the banks and other companies,I realize that no matter how it is eventually handled, the many culprits of bad choices and blind greed, are not going to have to pay for it. They will not be held accountable.
Maybe they'll loan me some money when I get fired because my undernourished, in food and experience, students only make a year's growth while they're with me, but still aren't caught up.
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This is the ONE single thing that I feel is wrong with the way many parents are parenting today as well. It is a very difficult thing to teach your kids accountability, especially if you are coming out of that "we all have to have high esteem by falsely praising, rewarding you" mentality. But it seems to be a personality trait that makes a huge difference in your life.
If I could give kids two things it would be accountability and compassion and they are the hardest to teach. Especially when so many adults are neither compassionate nor accountable.
I think if one wants to teach these things to kids, one can not use the "real world" as example. said real world is hugely messed up. we don't want them to be like the adults are now; we want them to be better.
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