Discipline

What happened to discipline? Discipline within the student, within the content, within life. Where did it go? Will it come back? I am now a full time college student at the age of 29. I have been attending college for the last 7 years and I continue to see today’s generation change and it’s quite alarming.

As I mentioned before I am a long time college that was once a child. Hard to believe, but yes it’s true, we all are at some point in our lives. I can remember times when I hated my parents for how and when they disciplined me because I guess I was too young to really know what was right from wrong. Looking back at it all I can say I love them for it because it molded me into one fine young gentleman. When I misbehaved they let me know, when I was out of line they told me so, when I didn’t meet their expectations they made me aware, but from what I observe in today’s high schools, that kind of discipline is falling by the wayside. The students do not respect the teacher any longer. When there is a substitute, the students are worse than when their regular teacher is present. It was the opposite during my earlier years of school. When we had a substitute, we were made aware that we were to be better than when the regular teacher was there because if the substitute notified our regular teacher that we misbehaved, our class would pay. Sometimes we would have to write until our hand fell off, sometimes we would have to run almost until we were ready to throw up, and sometimes certain privileges were taken away, such as the rights to the computer use in class. It sure is different now, but I hope that something is done to change the view of today’s students. If nothing is done, I don’t see anything but heartache in the future, but I do believe it starts with students parents, and trying to change their views is going to take a miracle. God Bless America!