There are a lot of challenges that a teacher could confronted, it all depends on the culture of each of the students. The reason why I said that is because if I as a teacher have a Hispanic student, his/her culture is totally different than a White student and I don’t mean it in a bad way. I think that Hispanic parents are more restrictive when it comes to their children, for example in my culture which is Hispanic, parents usually hit their kids if they don’t behave and here, in America, that is consider domestic violence, but even here some parents don’t lose their culture and keep doing that and when their children are misbehaving in school they tell the teacher (if the teacher is Hispanic) to hit the kid so he/she can listen and behave. Children would never listen if you treat them bad and parents don’t understand that. The more they hit the kid, the more rebellious the kid becomes. The reason why I’m talking about this is because I passed through a situation like this, where one of my students’ parent told me that if her child don’t listen to me, I have the permission to hit him. I’m sure that teachers pass through many others challenges with their students.
This is a very interesting comment. Different cultures my view child-rearing and education differently in terms of "discipline" although I am not sure it relates as much to ethnicity or cultural characteristics as it does to education and class. What I mean is that although your ethnic culture is hispanic, your education and experiences allows you to see through this issue and the damaging and ineffective impact of using violence in either our private or public lives!
ReplyDeleteNot to mention of course the fact that it is "illegal," for a teacher to discipline a student physically, which you should certainly relate to any parent who mentions it.
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