#4 Elizabeth | 2006-09-03 23:17
            
          
          
            NOT SPAM
          
          
            I've done substitute teaching in public schools and I spent a semester teaching in an
          
          
            allegedly "Christian" school. I had thought of getting a teaching certificate, and thought
          
          
            about it and thought about it, finally realizing that I really wasn't committed enough
          
          
            to put up with more Education courses as well as the indentured servitude of "Student
          
          
            Teaching."
          
          
            Parents have the DUTY and the RESPONSIBILITY to instruct their children in morals and
          
          
            duties PRIMARILY by example. I don't know about you, but my parents told me a lot of
          
          
            things and then went and contradicted most of what they told me by behaving like
          
          
            bratty toddlers with each other and with me. (btw, both were in elementary school
          
          
            in 1945, so they were early Baby Boomers, not "Greatest Generation.")
          
          
            If you are a parent you should be visiting your child's school, both during the school day
          
          
            -- drop in at least a couple of times every school year and ask to sit in on some classes --
          
          
            and at parent conferences as well as scheduled group events such as open houses. Meet your
          
          
            children's teachers. Talk with them. If your children are in public school, research the
          
          
            local alternatives -- just in case. (Also try to drop by during lunch and take a look at what
          
          
            goes on during recess or whatever the middle school or high school might call outdoor free
          
          
            time during the day. If there are fights, you need to know this, especially if the teacher or
          
          
            teachers on duty can't control the children.)