Are Schools Replacing Parents? | Intellectual Takeout"...Tennessee will spend the next year on the task as one of eight states chosen to draft new standards focused on students’ emotional well-being and mental health in grades K-12.
"That means setting benchmarks for what students should know or be able to do in each grade when it comes to skills such as decision-making, self-awareness, social awareness, self-control, and establishing and maintaining healthy relationships..."
...But one has to wonder: is it the school’s responsibility to teach those things, or is it the responsibility of the parent in the home?
Several years ago, former teacher John Taylor Gatto addressed this question in his book Dumbing Us Down. While Gatto implies that parents are the best teachers of social and emotional learning, he also notes that it is difficult for parents to follow through and fulfill their role in this area, largely because the education system has declared themselves the experts in raising children:
Read all.“[N]o large-scale reform is ever going to work to repair our damaged children and our damaged society until we force open the idea of ‘school’ to include family as the main engine of education. If we use schooling to break children away from parents – and make no mistake, that has been the central function of schools...we’re going to continue to have the horror show we have right now..."
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