Indulgent Parents Reproducing After Their Own Kind
We blogged recently on the brouhaha at Hamilton's Fraser High School. Columnist Kate Hawkesby has taken the "rebel students" to task for their walkout. Well done. Well said.
I fully support the principal of Fraser High in Hamilton. To the parents who don't support her - and say she called your kids losers - newsflash: they are losers. They are losing out on teaching, on some tough talk about their futures, they're losing an opportunity to learn respect and what care looks like.
This principal, on the occasions she leaves the school grounds during class time for meetings, sees groups of students sitting outside the dairy, fish and chip shop, bus stop, just wagging, smoking, and basically avoiding school.
She wants better for them. She was urging them to put in the work now, and create a better future for themselves. She didn't mince her words, and quite likely realised she had to be blunt to be heard. To make an impact. Telling it like it is, is not infringing someone's human rights.
