| I am a teacher by profession and a parent of two. I agree that teaching respect to children start from home, with the parents. Modeling respects to your kids in your actions and words is utmost important in their early years. Children pick up a lot by watching parents interaction with other people. They pick up bad words and negative attitudes by watching other kids their age at the nursery and playground.
As a teacher, I notice students nowadays hold less respects for their teachers. At least to the extend that I held respects for all the teachers that had taught me over the years. It goes back to their parents actually. Sometimes, we teachers do call parents to school to discuss their children's misbehaviour but at times I was not surprise that the parents who turn up at the school office are not respectable themselves. Some come in verbally abusive, can't hold a discussion in an orderly manner, blame the environment, teachers and their children's friends instead of accepting the responsibility of educating the children on their shoulders. We as teachers are bored and tired already with the blame game. If a child misbehave, their teachers have failed in educating him. If you at home have your hands full with three children, a teacher on average teaches 5 classes of 40 children, that 200 children. Apart from imparting knowledge in various subjects they are teaching, do you think a teacher have enough time to pay personal attention to individual student with problems? Parents spend more hours with their children in a day to handle this responsibility. Remember, teachers are also ordinary parents with their own family problems at home. |