Star Q
I listened with great interest when the other day, a neighbor of mine, teaching in a nearby school, mentioning that parents will be invited to come to this particular school, go to their children's classes and help to make the classrooms more conducive for learning. In short (sic!) he said that, the parents will be painting the classrooms, decorating them, putting up the curtains (after they have bought and sewn them themselves!), put up pictures and posters and anything else that would help the school reach that goal.
I continued to listen patiently to more of the teacher's dissatisfaction. He felt that, getting parents to do these things will only make students become lazier. He insisted that at present, there are already a large number of students who refuse to carry out classroom duties. With the implementation of this idea, these students can afford to be rampant with their distressing behavior of causing destruction and chaos to the classrooms, because they know that there will always be parents who will later clear their mess; apart from the cleaning lady!
My neighbor is more than apprehensive about this idea. He reminds me that, just as there are many lazy students in the school who refuse to carry out their duties in class, there will always be just as many lazy parents who will rely on other parents to do their donkey jobs for them. Hence, the scene where we see the same people doing the same work, while others look on, will continue it's vicious and never-ending cycle.
At the end of the conversation, my neighbor stressed that the other sad outcome of this whole idea is, the lazy students will get even lazier. Before bidding goodbye, he instructed his son to bring in the clothes from the clothesline while he himself started to water the plants around his house.
I wish there were more parents like him.
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