Have you ever wondered how seemingly small parenting choices can drastically affect a child's performance and attitude in school? On this episode of the Conservative Classroom, you’ll gain eye-opening insights into the red flags teachers notice when interacting with parents and students. We explore the impact of dismissing standard routines, like bedtimes, on student preparedness, and the far-reaching consequences of parents being unresponsive to teacher communications. Additionally, we delve into the significant role of parental involvement in shielding children from inappropriate content, all while encouraging them to grow into moral and responsible individuals.
Moving forward, we focus on the red flags students exhibit, revealing deeper issues related to their home lives. The consequences are profound, from frequent school absences due to a lack of parental emphasis on education to the setting of low academic expectations by parents who struggled themselves. We also address the detrimental effects of excessive screen time leading to school disengagement. Be sure to check out Raven Ishak's insightful article from BuzzFeed, linked in our show notes, for these and other red flags.
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Have you ever wondered how seemingly small parenting choices can drastically affect a child's performance and attitude in school? On this episode of the Conservative Classroom, you’ll gain eye-opening insights into the red flags teachers notice when interacting with parents and students. We explore the impact of dismissing standard routines, like bedtimes, on student preparedness, and the far-reaching consequences of parents being unresponsive to teacher communications. Additionally, we delve into the significant role of parental involvement in shielding children from inappropriate content, all while encouraging them to grow into moral and responsible individuals.
Moving forward, we focus on the red flags students exhibit, revealing deeper issues related to their home lives. The consequences are profound, from frequent school absences due to a lack of parental emphasis on education to the setting of low academic expectations by parents who struggled themselves. We also address the detrimental effects of excessive screen time leading to school disengagement. Be sure to check out Raven Ishak's insightful article from BuzzFeed, linked in our show notes, for these and other red flags.
Don’t forget our new text message feature for listener engagement—share your thoughts and suggestions for future episodes! Just click the "Send us a Text Message" link!
TCC is THE podcast for conservative teachers, parents, and patriots who believe in free speech, traditional values, and education without indoctrination.
The views and opinions expressed by me are solely my own and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any employer, school, or school district I have worked with in the past or present.
Thanks for listening to The Conservative Classroom. Teaching the truth. Preserving our values.
Have you ever noticed red flags when you're talking to a parent or a student for the first time? Welcome to The Conservative Classroom, where we're teaching the truth and preserving our values. I'm your host, Mr. Webb, and I'm glad you're here. This podcast is a haven for conservative educators, parents and patriots like you who believe in the importance of free speech, traditional values and education without indoctrination. Each week, we dive into issues that are plaguing our education system and keeping you up at night. In each episode, we offer common sense ideas to improve education in our classrooms and communities. You may feel like you're the last conservative educator or parent, but I want you to know that you are not alone. By the way, if you like what you hear today, please share this podcast with a like-minded educator, parent or patriot podcast with a like-minded educator, parent or patriot. Together, we can teach the truth and preserve our values. In today's episode, I'll be talking about a recent article that I read and the red flags that we sometimes see from students and parents.
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When I do these solo episodes, sometimes I have something in mind and other times I just look through articles, finding things I find interesting or things that might interest you guys, and I ran across this article. Teachers are revealing parenting red flags. They notice right away when meeting a parent or a kid for the first time. So this is from a March 2nd BuzzFeed and I will put a link in the show notes to this article, but I thought it was very interesting. Some of the things on this list and I'm going to go through some of them, probably not all of them Parents who start conversations with quote we don't believe in such and such.
Mr. Webb:
So I know you guys have witnessed this also. One of the examples the article gave was we don't believe in bedtimes. So I'm sure you've had a parent like that. We don't believe in bedtimes. So I'm sure you've had a parent like that. We don't believe in bedtimes. Yeah, that must be why your child is asleep in class all the time. I had a student one time that their parents didn't believe in monitoring what they would be exposed to in real life, which is absolutely ridiculous. We're talking about 12, 13-year-old and I don't know how young the kid was when the parents started this, if it was their whole life or whatever, but that's ridiculous or whatever, but that's ridiculous.
Mr. Webb:
One of our jobs as parents I'm speaking as a parent now, not as a teacher One of our jobs as parents is to keep our kids sheltered from things so that they can grow up to be good, productive, moral citizens. Yes, they will be exposed to things later, but it's our job to help them get a good foundation so that when they are exposed to those things, they know, hey, these things are wrong. What I'm seeing here is wrong. I shouldn't do these things.
Mr. Webb:
Another red flag it mentions that I have run into, and I'm sure you have too, is parents who don't respond to phone calls or emails and no matter how many times you reach out, they seem to be unreachable, and that usually shows in the classroom as well. I think most of those students know that their parent doesn't care, so why should they care? And that's pretty sad. Another red flag is parents who downplay or laugh off their child's negative behavior, and the article mentions this, and it also goes on to talk about how some of those parents. Not only do they kind of just brush off their child's bad behavior, but they get angry and defensive when their child is on the receiving end of the same type of behavior. And this wasn't in the BuzzFeed article, but I just thought of another red flag that I've noticed.
Mr. Webb:
If you see parents out in public, there's an example I can think of about a particular parent with their child that I had the pleasure in quotation marks pleasure of being around on a regular basis for a while and this small child, I mean this kid was in diapers, probably I would say maybe pushing two years old, and the parent completely ignored this child and let him get into everything. The adults were trying to have a meeting and this kid was walking around this other teacher's classroom just grabbing things, throwing them, walking up to the board, and the parent absolutely ignored the child. That kid was so what I would call wild and I thought to myself okay, that kid's about two years old and I'm seeing the parent, absolutely no discipline, just letting the kid run wild. By the time that kid gets to me, he's going to be identified with having ADHD, identified with having ADHD, add, adhd or something where he's going to be on some plan and the parent's going to defend the behavior. Oh, he can't help it. He's got ADHD. And I'm not saying kids don't have that. There's a lot of kids that do and you can tell when they take their medication and when they don't. That's legitimate. But I'm talking about I see how this parent's raising the child. They're small. By the time they get to middle school they're going to be completely out of hand, but it's not going to be the parent's fault. So big red flag there If you see how parents are raising their small children, letting them do whatever, there's a good chance that by the time they get to school elementary school, middle school, high school they're going to be problem students and it's not going to be the parents' fault.
Mr. Webb:
There actually was something similar in the article now that I think about it, in that there was a student who had bad behavior. The teacher met with the parents and saw that the parents didn't pay any attention to the child. So the child was acting out for attention, most likely. So I guess that is pretty similar to the example I thought of. Just to give, just to give the article its dues. There was something similar to that in there.
Mr. Webb:
One red flag that I experienced this year, and usually every year there's one or two students who fall into this category and that's the student who misses school so often and other students you can say where's Billy? I'll use the most generic name that I can think of right now, this student's name. Obviously I'm not going to say the student's name, but let's just say it was Billy. Where's Billy at today? And occasionally it would be he's sick, sometimes it would be, oh yeah, he's on vacation. Him and his family went to, say, florida, wherever, or oh, they went to this event, they went to that event, oh, he didn't feel like coming to school today. And in this example it was a male student, but it's not always and that's irrelevant anyway, but it's a red flag.
Mr. Webb:
When the parents don't put any emphasis on schooling, they let the kid miss so often for whatever reason, some days just because he didn't feel like coming to school, some days just because he didn't feel like coming to school. And then when he does come to school, he's late, sometimes a few minutes late, sometimes like would miss his entire first period class, maybe not come into a second period again. This is middle school. It's broken down into periods and I ran into the mother and grandmother and the mom asked how's he doing? So I was honest. I said well, he's hardly ever at school so it's hard to tell. But when he's there he's struggling because he spends most of his time working on missing assignments and as soon as he gets those caught up, he's gone again. So when he's there he's working on missing assignments and missing what we're doing in class, and then about the time he starts to get caught up, the whole cycle continues. So his mom just acts shocked. Oh, and then the grandmother was like yep, well, I told her, talking about the mother, I told her that he needs to be in school, et cetera. So again, that's a red flag.
Mr. Webb:
When the parent doesn't care if the kid comes to school or not, they don't really care if they learn anything. I just thought of another one that's not on this list, but it's a big red flag to me as a math teacher. Middle school math teacher I teach 7th and 8th grade math. Before school starts we have an open house where parents bring their kids and the kids and the parents meet their teachers. Parents bring their kids and the kids and the parents meet their teachers. And when a parent tells me at that first meeting well, little Billy Bob, he's just like me, he's no good in math, I always struggle in math. He's just like his dad. Or when they meet me and they say, yeah, I was never any good at math, I struggle at math. So I told him, you know, he'll probably struggle in math too, and there's lots of variations of that. But I think you get the point where the parent is upfront, totally lowering the expectations for that child and it all also at at the same time, providing an excuse why they shouldn't succeed. Or if they don't succeed, well, we saw this coming. I wasn't any good at math. He or she won't be any good at math either.
Mr. Webb:
And the last red flag that I'll talk about in this article there were 15 in the article. I'm not sure how many I talked about and I know I added one or two of my own. But the last one I'm going to talk about is the red flag of the parents who have screens whether it's TV, phone, ipad, something like that that babysit their child. And in the article it was from this. One came from an elementary teacher, so I can't relate to this one as much, but I can see where the effects in the middle school. So, basically, this elementary teacher said it's a red flag if the kids lose their minds. This quote lose their minds that's the exact wording in the article from the teacher. Lose their minds when it's time to put the screens up, then you can tell that's a red flag that the parents probably let this student sit in front of a screen the entire time they're at home, which causes difficulty at school when it's time for them to learn. Now, we don't see students losing their minds when they have to close their Chromebook at the middle school level, but you do see those students who are just completely disengaged, unless it's some kind of game or something that you're doing with them on a screen.
Mr. Webb:
All right, well, I hope you enjoyed some of these things that I talked about. I hope you enjoyed some of these things that I talked about. I hope you enjoyed all of them, but I hope you enjoyed some of the things from the article that I shared with you. I'm linking the article in the show notes so you can check it out for yourself. Again, this was an article from let's see it's HuffPost. com something other, but it's an article from Raven Ishak I probably butchered that name from BuzzFeed. So teachers are revealing parenting red flags. They notice right away when meeting a parent or a kid for the first time.
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