Saturday, November 6, 2010

Should teachers be allowed to interfere in students lives outside school?

In our school we’ve been having quite a few problems with students who smoke, and students being in a relationship. Now, the question is, should teachers be allowed to interfere if the students are behaving well in school, but smoke outside of school or are with there boyfriends/girlfriends outside of school? And should the teachers, instead of talking to the child directly, go and alert their parents?

I personally, as a student, fell that firstly, my life outside of school, is my problem. I should be allowed to make my own mistakes and learn from them too. So, the teachers shouldn’t have the right to go to my parents if I am doing nothing wrong in school. I agree that if I was smoking in school or making out in the corridors, teachers have the right to call my parents, as I am breaking school rules. But, the worst part of all is when the teachers assume things. For example, she/he is good friends with this group of people who smoke, so she must be smoking too. Or she/he is around this one person too much, they must be dating. It’s so annoying, especially, when they put things like that in your parents head, and then your parents give you a hard time too. And as a student, if I did see a teacher outside of school and I was smoking or doing something “unacceptable”, I wouldn’t just continue on, I would try to hide myself or put out my cigarette, just out of common courtesy and respect. 

In conclusion, we might be doing something that isn’t exactly right, but I would say that it’s a part of life, and everyone goes through it. So, we should all be given the right to take the chance and make the mistake. As long as we behave well inside school premises, as normal teenagers we should be allowed to portray our 'rebellious streak' once in a while. Besides, if we did anything wrong outside of school it is our parents who are held responsible for us; not the people teaching us how to solve quadratics. There is a certain line that we shouldn’t cross, but even then, there are other authorities that will deal with it. The consequences might be worse, but we as individuals have to learn to draw the line ourselves.

Here is another opinion from my classmate Leah who originally thought of the idea:
http://www.leahsimon.blogspot.com/

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