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Songshi QuanThe Blame Game – Can you spell “Media Beat up”?
September 2nd 2008 07:57
The Blame Game – Can you spell “Media Beat up”?
The contestants for today’s show are:
“My 15 seconds of fame” Parent - * cue photo of concerned parent *
“Just doing my job” Teacher
“I need to drum up some business” Child psychologist
and lucky last for today….
“Slow news day” Media groups grinding as much air time as possible for what should be nothing more then a stern talking to over the dinner table and perhaps a grounding for a few days.
Contestants…. COME ON DOWN!!
It all started when a young boy, age of 6 chose poorly to use a rather obscene (if also rather common) obscenity in the play ground.
The teacher, who to my liking, acted very appropriately responded by having the child write a note to his parents explaining what he had done. As would be the case, the poorly chosen obscenity was included in the note, and to the shock of all, spelt correctly.
Let the beat up begin!!
Parents, bless their poor intentions, decide not to use this opportunity to perhaps counsel and educate their son on taking responsibility for his actions and not repeating them, after all, we don’t want our children using such foul language. Instead, they opt for a media driven attack on the teacher and school system for psychologically damaging their child with their heinous education practises.
Gone are the days when the teacher could deal with the issue with a swift clip behind the ear or dare I say it, the ruler or cane across the hand or bum for such foul language. We got rid of such useful punishments because of the terrible psychological damage they caused to our fragile youngsters. The benefits / cost of that decision is for another blog.
So, instead, the teacher takes one of the few recourses left available and has the student write a note to their parents detailing the offence in the hope that the parents will take over the disciplinary action required. All I can say is, nice try! These days’, disciplining the child has to take a back seat to the gravy train of publicity I can squeeze from this travesty of education.
“The punishment has left my child traumatised and suffering nightmares…” Are you freaking kidding me?! If the child had no qualms about saying it, why does writing it suddenly leave him in such a state of distress? Perhaps it was actually getting caught that did it?
Ok, for arguments sake, let’s say the punishment did leave the child so distressed? What is the next softer option? Hells above, we might just have to resort to praising the child for their indiscretions just to avoid the subsequent media storm and potential law suits for psychological trauma.
Enter the child psychologist clearly in need of work or publicity or maybe both. The punishment “was the equivalent of putting the child in psychological stocks…” Ohh my… how the human mind has degenerated that being made to write what you have said can cause such damage. Granted, the boy is 6 years old, but psychological stocks? Imagine if his father had given him the belt across the backside? That would have surely been the equivalent of the psychological Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp!
Lastly… one final comment on this absurdity. Apparently the teacher made sure the child spelt the profanity correctly in his note to his parents. There was an inference in the article that this was somehow furthering the insult of the punishment itself. But, let me say that surely the teacher has a responsibility to ensure his/her students spell all words correctly, even the obscene ones, after all, don’t we have enough issues about literacy in our school systems without teaching our students that swear words are not spelt with “#$@%”.
Hail the teacher. Shame on you father and get a new career please child psychologist.
Special thanks to Songshi Quan for this story lead.
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Comment by Songshi Quan
$30,000 hush money from Ed Qld to make the parent shut up and go away...
$300 an hour from the child psychologist to make "your babies pain go away"...
The look on the parents face when the child throws a massive, Facebook-fueled rave at their house and tells Mum and Dad to %@&* off when they object...
Priceless.
Bow-fricken-wow.