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It’s a shame, because he seemed like such a good boy, always polite and trying his best to succeed. But I guess they were right to make sure none of the other boys were allowed to talk to him. They obviously knew what he would become. Today he listens to bad music and wears the wrong clothes. He would be such a bad influence on the other teens. It’s a good thing they foresaw this change and kicked him out before it happened. But now you see that all the times they singled him out and yelled at him for the class’s problems, all the times they suspended him for having his shoelace untied, all the times they told him he was worthless, it was all for the best. If not for all those times, he would chas vshalom be influencing the other kids.
(Note that this is a Convoluted Moshol, not an actual situation or a rant about the school system.)
Sad but true. A self fulfilling philosophy caused by their own ignorance and stupidity. It happens all too often.
It’s never wise to label a child. It destroys them.
That depends on the label.
DaasYochid: The labels are often very negative. Thomas Edison was labeled stupid and a slow learner; Einstein was labeled slow and lazy; plenty of very bright kids are labeled that they can’t learn. Mostly they’re bored because a classroom is designed for the lowest common denominator.
How many kids are drugged because their environment is not conducive for them? Way too many!!
Yet another thread which will inevitably lead to the wholesale condemnation of the devoted individuals in whose hands we have entrusted the future of the Jewish People.
If I were to decry the dangers of doctors treating patients without taking the necessary precautions to ensure against infection and cross-contamination, all the doctors in the room would be righteously indignant. All objective observers would point out that it has been many, many years since this problem was recognised and eliminated.
The world of Chinuch has, by all accounts, been completely revolutionized, and is increasingly more professional every year. This is true by all measures, from the people entering the field, to the training and professional development.
The bogeyman of the “nightmare Chinuch” which might once have existed (but certainly never to the extent that some would have us believe) is no more.
It is time to appreciate Chinuch for what is, instead of condemning it for what might once have been. Your son and his Rebbe deserve no less.
A rat by any other name would smell as malodorous.
And, in any case, the intentions of the OP are irrelevant – the course of the conversation is clear.
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