Most people's response to this is something along the lines of, "But how will they learn to deal with people who are different/mean/break the rules/whatever thing it is you're objecting to? How will they learn that sometimes life isn't fair and people aren't nice and well-behaved?"
Yep. My answer - well, Maggie learned a lesson on that today, with her mother there, taking her aside and talking to her, pointing out behavior that's like that, and telling her it's best to stay away from people like that.
Better that than being at a school where she's dumped in with kids like that, and nobody's guiding her and telling her that it's unacceptable.
Much more important to teach them the harder lessons that aren't so obvious. And THAT, you can say to the doubters, is how they will learn to deal w/ the meanness out there: by countering it with their own niceness.
I agree. Teach them to be well-mannered people, to be good even when dealing with nasty people. To stand up against bullies when necessary, without ever becoming one. That's my goal.
sometimes the only way to defeat evil is to confound it with goodness. Confusion to the enemy!
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Date: 2006-03-17 09:04 pm (UTC)Yep. My answer - well, Maggie learned a lesson on that today, with her mother there, taking her aside and talking to her, pointing out behavior that's like that, and telling her it's best to stay away from people like that.
Better that than being at a school where she's dumped in with kids like that, and nobody's guiding her and telling her that it's unacceptable.
Much more important to teach them the harder lessons that aren't so obvious. And THAT, you can say to the doubters, is how they will learn to deal w/ the meanness out there: by countering it with their own niceness.
I agree. Teach them to be well-mannered people, to be good even when dealing with nasty people. To stand up against bullies when necessary, without ever becoming one. That's my goal.
sometimes the only way to defeat evil is to confound it with goodness. Confusion to the enemy!
Heh, I like it.