2012-08-26, 01:57 PM
hadriel Wrote:Fair point. Plus one. Arguably the teacher is indeed a little uncivilised, but I'd pay a couple of bucks for the popcorn to actually know what the teacher was thinking then.
It is not absurd for schools to have a uniform code - wear this, that, keep your hair short and tuck in your shirt/blouse. I can flip the tables around on you right now and say that it is absurd not to have rules on a defined uniform, at least up till high school, because every school in an Asian city goes by those rules so we grow up in those mindset. If you keep looking at us with such eyes, then so can we; there's no point calling us things that we find offensive and we throwing them back with our own descriptions of you all. Would you like it? I don't think so. Do you think we like it now? I don't think so either. Can we please keep this nice and civilised?
Please do not put the actions of the teacher/student/parent and the validity of the rule together. They're entirely different issues.
So, is having a uniform code important in education? This should be the question we should be throwing daggers at. It is not whether the rule is petty, stupid or inconsequential or whether it's rooted in culture or whether its backwards. Those are repercussions, whether in opinions or causally affecting reality, but that's not the issue right now, and we will, and do, find those descriptions of the rules/culture offensive, if not very. We're just not lashing out because those are opinions that we still respect.
I don't think a discussion on ridiculous parenting brought up by Dean is a bad idea, but we should do that on another thread. It really is getting fairly ridiculous, to tell the truth, but a suitable example should be utilised (that does not include this current one =.=).
/edit: I'm suddenly reminded of the fact that the Russell Peter's video (that very famous one) had a little bit on the parenting issue...
Hadriel
The idea of uniform and such isn't an issue, it's common over here too, specifically for private schools. The response of the teacher seems barbaric too me, but if the government supports that, then I don't think they are any better. Discipline in school is water down'd over here, on account of all this sensitive bull sh`it, but even I think that was over the top.
Just to clarify I feel the actions of the teacher is barbaric, even if it was good intentions. I don't believe she should lose her job for it though, I don't think she did something THAT cruel.