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Don’t show favorites!Treat them the same, same rules and guidelines.At some point, one may exhibit behavior that shows you that they need more guidance or stricter rules & consequences for breaking those rules.IF that happens, THEN you can have different parenting methods for each— but only do it based on need and their individual behavior— never their gender!!!

The biggest issue in education is the growing atmosphere of chaos found in too many American schools. Students currently operate within a system where there are practically no consequences for disruptive, defiant and sometimes dangerous behavior.The following report comes courtesy of Oregon’s KGW TV.In this report teachers describe classroom discipline being in a state of crisis with the following behaviors being common.Death threats and suicide threatsthrowing chairs and tables at staff and other studentsdirecting profanity at teacherspunching teacherskicking teachersbiting teachers.slapping teachers.scratching teachershurting other studentsThis report only deals with elementary school teachers and students, so they are describing the behavior of children 5 to 10 years old. In Beverton, Oregon, 72% of the 1,788 staff injuries were inflicted by students. In the Salem-Kaiser School District 73% of injuries are caused by student misbehavior. In the Hillsboro School District, 65% of teachers’ workplace injuries are inflicted on them by misbehaving students. Among the behaviors described are kindergartners punching teachers or swinging metal rods at teachers. Another example is a student spraying cleaning solution into a teacher’s eyes.The situation has become so out-of-control that most U.S. schools have developed the 'Room Clear' approach to dealing with aggressive students. Basically, when a kid has become defiant and/or violent, all the other students are removed from the class room.So instead of making a child behave, schools are clearing the classroom and giving the defiant student room to let off steam by destroying property and throwing furniture.The kids who are doing this fall into 2 categories:Those that have some biological reason they cannot control themselves.Those that have tested the limits of what they can get away with and learned that there are no limits.If a student honestly cannot control their behavior, they absolutely deserve our sympathy and the best care and education a community can afford to give them. But we also should take into account what the rest of community deserves. No child deserves to have their education disrupted by the behavior of an out-of-control peer, no matter how much sympathy society feels for that child. And…absolutely… no child deserves to have their safety put at risk.Fortunately, there are very few kids who have biological reasons why they can’t control themselves. The overwhelming majority of such behavior is the result of kids testing the limits of what they can get away with, and finding out that they can get away with a whole lot of misbehavior.When I began my teaching career, there would be consequences for students who behaved in the manner displayed by the students above. Those consequences weren’t particularly severe when compared to the punishments students faced for serious misbehavior when I was a K-12 student in the 70s and 80s, but in most cases they were sufficient to teach the student what is not acceptable.But in most places in the United States, those consequences have been substantially curtailed by a combination of laws, regulations, and the threat of lawsuits by anti-discipline activists. Those few consequences that remain require so much time and bureaucratic wrangling on the part of teachers and administrators as to be nearly worthless. All too often the result is that any particular consequence is too-little-too-late.The result of these changes is that our school system is inadvertently teaching students that they can engage in defiance, disruption and sometimes cruel ways and there is nothing anyone can do to stop them.There has been a decades long, concerted effort by activists, bureaucrats and too many politicians to hamstring the ability of teachers and administrators to discipline unruly students. Over the last decade they have had tremendous success, especially since the tenure of DOE Secretary Anre Duncan, whose School Discipline Guidelines opened the floodgates on disciplinary problems. If the issues with K-5 students punching and swinging metal rods at teachers weren’t disturbing enough, what happens when students, who learn they can mostly get away with disruptive behavior, enter young adulthood?That is described all to succinctly by Lee McNulty, a recently retired veteran teacher.McNulty’s claims would seem like hyperbole, except that during my 20 year teaching career I’ve witnessed similar behaviors.The most important thing I can stress is, that we can say, over-and-over-again, that certain behaviors will not be tolerated. But when a student engages in that behavior and receives either no consequence, or a consequence too insignificant to be meaningful, for a behavior we are teaching him that he can engage in that behavior.The lesson that a misbehaving student can do what they want is possibly the most enduring lesson we are teaching in schools today.When we tell a student that using the words “motherf***er” and “sh**” are against the rules, but there are no consequences for that language…we have taught a lesson. And that lesson transfers over when we tell them that hitting, stealing or bullying are against the rules.Long after the student forgets what photosynthesis is or who wrote the Declaration of Independence, he will remember that he can do what he wants and nobody can, or will, stop him. He will take that lesson into the community, often with tragic results.The behavior patterns of defiance, disruption and cruelty that are reinforced in the consequence-free atmosphere of public schools don’t stay on school grounds.These are the kind of behaviors that too many teachers have to deal with on a daily basis. That is causing many teachers to retire early. Also, many potential teachers are getting their first experience as substitutes, where they quickly find themselves overwhelmed by misbehavior issues. Many an education student/substitute teacher has had a change of heart after being threatened, harassed or defied by unruly kids.

Kunal Kamra's behaviour.I see it as stupid. Grandstanding. Covering it by saying “This is for Rohit Vemula” is bullshit. Just because this, haranguing, is what Arnab does to others, does not give Kamra any right to do what he did. Otherwise what is the difference between him and Arnab? Remember what Nietzsche said “when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares into you”. Using the same methods may seem like tit-for-tat but that is juvenile. As Gandhi said “Means are as important as the ends. An eye for eye will make the whole world blind”.Now, the consequence.Ludicrous. Silly. Asinine. Arising from deep insecurity. A political reaction to a long held fear of ridicule. A pointer to the fact that Arnab is so much in the pocket of the government that it is teaming up with private sector and media to gang up on Kamra to protect him. What else would explain the extreme reaction of airlines, the minister of civil aviation, and modia? Whoever heard of an action against an unruly traveller being taken in public forums of social media? Being banned through tweets? Whoever heard of punishment being pronounced before any enquiry which is what the rules created by DGCA require? Whoever heard of punishment that is not even commensurate with the crime. Remember that this is a government that has just got courts to grant bail to people convicted of rioting and add that the convicts perform social service. If social service is good punishment for those convicted for rioting, then isn't a 6 month travel ban over the top for uncivil behaviour that endangered no one?All in all, this whole incident is unsavoury. A pointer to the terribly uncivil times we live in and the fact that rule of law is just an empty phrase.Last word: If you are cheering this action against Kunal Kamra, just wait. One day they will come for you and you will realise how stupid and short-sighted you were. I don’t give a damn about Kamra getting banned, I get worried that there is no rule and due process of law that is followed. I would have had no comment on this incident had the DGCA and Airlines been consistent with this approach ever since the guidelines were made. The ‘fun’ fact is that the original culprit who caused the guidelines to be formed in the first place got away with a gentle slap on the wrist, and let’s not forget that he had slapped an official with his footwear!