Blood was spilled in the hallway of Irving High School. The parents of the students involved in this scandal are punishing their kids and I believe that what they are doing is just because the kids acted unruly and it makes the parents look like they got an “F” in teaching their kids behavioral skills.
Many things went wrong on the day that the white covered the cement outside and the red covered the floors indoors. Irving High School students say that their was an alarm pulled, a food fight in which a poor innocent girl spilled blood, and lastly, to topel the tower, there was a snowball fight in which an administrator trying to do her job got pelted with snowballs. Who’s fault is this we may ask? We could blame the administrators for not doing a better job in stopping the chaos, but they did take precautions into making sure that the second planned snowball fight did not take place. We could also put all the fault on the students, but how are they to blame if they were taught no better. The only people left that are getting all the underserved blame put on are the parents of the students involved.
There are many parents, those of which whose kids were not involved, who are just outraged to say the least. “Of course it’s their fault for not teaching their kids how to act like civilized people,” said one of the parents I had an interview with. I must admit if I were a parent and I heard about all the chaos that ensued that day I would be mad also. Administrators probably feel about the same way because one of their faculty members got “booed off the stage” during the big scene.Although all this does sound like a good reason for blaming the parents of students involved, the parents are punishing the students and trying to make them take responsibility for what they have done. Although most people blame the parents of students involved they have not even tried to get their part or try to communicate with them.
One of the Parents of students involved have replied to these insulting, miss targeted comments by saying “Kids can be told for hours not to touch a burning stove because it’s hot, but when the friend comes along and touches the stove the kid will surely follow no matter what was warned.” The adult was implying that it was not their fault and it was the fault of other students influencing theirs. Also,something that caught my interest during an interview with the parents was when one of them said “I know what my child did was wrong and I am very sorry for what happened and I am going to make sure he learns his lesson, but trying to blame a certain group of people to take some of the blame off yourself isn’t just.” I agree with this completely and so do many others because I haven’t seen any of the students involved blame themselves and neither have I seen the administrators, they all seem to be pointing a finger at someone else.
The parents of students involved should be appreciated more because they are punishing their kids to make sure this mistake never happens again. Some are grounding them and not allowing them to leave the house for several weeks, others are simply giving them more of a “stern warning” that insures the kids will not be sitting down comfortably any day soon and that they will never misbehave again. The parents are trying hard to apologize for the way their children misbehaved, but all they have gotten is the cold shoulder. this is very childish and wrong.
In the end everyone had a bit of a part to play in the mess up of that Thursday, there is no need to blame the parents. School should have been cancelled, students should of had some self control, and the students that weren’t involved should have tried to stop the others from making these bad choices. The parents might have had a little fraction of the pie, but in the long run it was all the others that had most of it.
Many things went wrong on the day that the white covered the cement outside and the red covered the floors indoors. Irving High School students say that their was an alarm pulled, a food fight in which a poor innocent girl spilled blood, and lastly, to topel the tower, there was a snowball fight in which an administrator trying to do her job got pelted with snowballs. Who’s fault is this we may ask? We could blame the administrators for not doing a better job in stopping the chaos, but they did take precautions into making sure that the second planned snowball fight did not take place. We could also put all the fault on the students, but how are they to blame if they were taught no better. The only people left that are getting all the underserved blame put on are the parents of the students involved.
There are many parents, those of which whose kids were not involved, who are just outraged to say the least. “Of course it’s their fault for not teaching their kids how to act like civilized people,” said one of the parents I had an interview with. I must admit if I were a parent and I heard about all the chaos that ensued that day I would be mad also. Administrators probably feel about the same way because one of their faculty members got “booed off the stage” during the big scene.Although all this does sound like a good reason for blaming the parents of students involved, the parents are punishing the students and trying to make them take responsibility for what they have done. Although most people blame the parents of students involved they have not even tried to get their part or try to communicate with them.
One of the Parents of students involved have replied to these insulting, miss targeted comments by saying “Kids can be told for hours not to touch a burning stove because it’s hot, but when the friend comes along and touches the stove the kid will surely follow no matter what was warned.” The adult was implying that it was not their fault and it was the fault of other students influencing theirs. Also,something that caught my interest during an interview with the parents was when one of them said “I know what my child did was wrong and I am very sorry for what happened and I am going to make sure he learns his lesson, but trying to blame a certain group of people to take some of the blame off yourself isn’t just.” I agree with this completely and so do many others because I haven’t seen any of the students involved blame themselves and neither have I seen the administrators, they all seem to be pointing a finger at someone else.
The parents of students involved should be appreciated more because they are punishing their kids to make sure this mistake never happens again. Some are grounding them and not allowing them to leave the house for several weeks, others are simply giving them more of a “stern warning” that insures the kids will not be sitting down comfortably any day soon and that they will never misbehave again. The parents are trying hard to apologize for the way their children misbehaved, but all they have gotten is the cold shoulder. this is very childish and wrong.
In the end everyone had a bit of a part to play in the mess up of that Thursday, there is no need to blame the parents. School should have been cancelled, students should of had some self control, and the students that weren’t involved should have tried to stop the others from making these bad choices. The parents might have had a little fraction of the pie, but in the long run it was all the others that had most of it.