Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Proper school discipline - logical consequences and forming a bond with students

Many teachers even these days like to appear "mean", meaning be vengeful and spiteful towards their students. School discipline should be positive in nature, but firm. It should involve students having a rapport with teachers, considering them friends.

All of the distance created in schools between teacher and student, apart from not being alone with a child, is unnecessary as a child protection measure. A little boy or girl can be held and cradled by their kindergarten or even grade school teacher, and even middle and high school students can be hugged. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania actually allows teachers to soothe the upset in a special needs student. I believe all students have special needs, and thus teachers need to get to know their students as individuals instead of a packaged monolith.

Some students are chronically disruptive, due to trauma and/or mood disorders, usually both. Schools have to keep in mind that there are other students there who want to learn. They should be given many warnings, but when they refuse to get it together, there's nothing much a school can do besides put them on homebound and expel them permanently, removing them from the school roster. They likely learned how to be aggressive, combative, or otherwise disruptive, at home, and thus the home should be monitored for abuse such as spanking and corporal punishment, assuming it is illegal in the context I am drawing, which it should be.

Student democracy should be allowed as a way for students to rally for or against new policy. In Iceland, there is a representative base from the student council, the school board, the parents' council, and the headmaster, making decisions for the school in a school council. Thus, individual local education agencies (LEAs) should be reformatted and restructured so that students have a say.

It says in Ephesians 6:4 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor thy father and mother, as this is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live upon the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

The Greek root word translated "nurture" is παιδεία (Latin: paideia) and refers to exemplary discipline of children on the surface, but ultimately refers to a form of education and pedagogy that allows for freethinking, meaning the Greek root word denoting submission to a teacher is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers here to building a rapport with a child in place of gentle, attached parenting, meaning a student securely attached to their teacher. In the old days, teachers could hold children gently to reassure them, but now, irrational fear of that being some act of pedophilia leads school districts to ban all touch of a student, ever. Perhaps some new students in Kindergarten need be held by their teacher when they are crying. Perhaps middle or high school students can be hugged by a teacher. A teacher is a parent in loco parentis, and thus since parents are to use attachment parenting to gain cooperation, so should teachers in place of the parents, to the degree appropriate as stated by the child. Some children like physical affection with teachers, some don't, and no child would blindly go with a predator in that regard, meaning a teacher in this environment would be abandoned by his or her students, as they know what the physical affection means to the teacher. Otherwise, many children would instead elect to talking about favorite topics in between work assignments. These are all secondary attachments, however, and should be backed up by a secure attachment to parents, which was the case for Christian children. Think nourishment. Your connection with your child should nourish them. The Greek root word translated "provoke...to wrath" is παροργιζο (Latin: parorgizo) and literally translates to "bitter anger" and references the moral count of provoking your neighbor to anger, with your child being your neighbor. This also translates today to a school setting, as parents were the school then, as parents homeschooled in the Early Christian church to keep children from being whipped and punished in Hellenistic schools. Parents themselves were forbade from using any force apart from what is needed to reel in a child from clearly risking death or serious bodily injury, meaning the slightest of offense perceived by a child was deemed an offense, thus abuse, thus sin. Today, this means a teacher is not to punish a child in any way, meaning not offend a child by way of one's entitled demeanor and attitude towards a child. This means power trips leading to yelling out of entitlement to students are prohibited, as you are their parent until they get home to their parents, and even if the parents themselves punish, you are to find a way around that

Children usually are fine, even with behavioral issues, for the teacher that seeks to be their friend and not their adversary to obey. This form of submission implies clearly that teachers are deserving of nothing in return for being a servant to children, slaving over hot coals, so to speak. The Greek root word for surrender, υπακουο, refers to student surrender to teachers, meaning feeling at home in a classroom while at school, liking the teacher, and listening to the teacher because you like them and find them to be a fun person to be around, or else a kind and caring person, or else any positive traits. Christian homeschool parents in the 1st Century were very warm and loving with their charges, and slaves who were bad tutors were thrown out and condemned to being destitute (ancient Jewish culture had financial slavery). A lector of s student then had to be very warm and loving, in a challenging way that encouraged free thought. Teacher-student power dynamics can be understood in mutual submission format - the teacher gives, the student receives, and usually gives "thanks" when they don't have to.

Let the punitive teachers BURN! Cast them into eternal Hell-fire! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

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