BEHAVIOUR? IT´S NO MY PROBLEM

“Nowadays young people only want the convenience. They have no manners or respect for authority or for the elderly and not even stand up when an elder enters the room. They contradict their parents; they say insults in the table and are tyrants with teachers.” Although it may seem today, the previous comment doesn’t belong to any teacher or parent of the XXI century. It was attributed to Socrates by Platon.

Perhaps the increased media and access to global information can give the impression that young people behave worse than ever. That feeling is reflected in polls and television programs, which reflects the school violence and abuse to which students and even teachers have to face every day.

Today children have become the dominant figures of the home, because parents have failed to balance the love, support, care and setting limits or rules on family dynamics. This has led to increasingly raise the cases where children at an early age are capricious, spoiled, disobedient, selfish, violent and even challenging. This situation has impacted not only within the family and what it entails but also has extended to schools and universities.

In my opinion some solutions or strategies in school (or university) could be the next ones: At the beginning of the lesson, the teacher must take control from the start, from entering through the door, perhaps welcoming or greeting them kindly. He must be an actor in the class. The teacher can't speak as you would in a bar with her friends. Avoid confrontation and better talk to shout.

This are only a few tips to follow. The teacher never have to lose her patience, it could create a disgusted situation as some that I have personally lived. For example, a kid of my class threw his case against the teacher when I went to school.