Perhaps children need to learn about responsibility before being given rights
News today on teachers trying to ‘fight back‘ after being abused and humiliated online by their students:
The US-based RateMyTeachers website carries comments about individual, named teachers. Remarks left on the site have included: “I have heard awful rumours about that man” and “he is evil personified”.
Not all teachers are good teachers, and some may even be criminally unfit, but for the most part, I reckon teachers are doing the best they can to educate their charges. This does not give students the right to post lies in an attempt to damage their teachers’ reputations or abuse them in class and film it for distribution on the Internet. Where do these kids learn this utter lack of respect for others?
I do believe that children have certain rights. The law has obviously gone miles too far in ‘protecting’ children — those who do not have a pressing need to have their rights protected have NOT learned that there are consequences to their actions (or at least, there should be).
These kids need to be caned or something.
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It seems you are very quick to trust the press. The reports in Australia have been horribly biased; basically lies. They’ve never contacted the site to find out our side of the story.
Here is a proper response: http://ker-plunk.blogspot.com/2007/05/piece-of-crap-nsw-teachers-federation.html
Michael, I am not blaming the RateMyTeachers site. Your site is only a tool. What I have an issue with is students who are given all these freedoms and ‘rights’ and have all responsibility for the consequences taken away.
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