The WINGS Story: An After-School Program Helps Students Beat the Odds

This sounds like a good program as long as the schools have the money for it. A lot of parents are now in the mind-set that the teachers and school should be teaching their children how to respect people, appropriate behavior, and more that goes all the way to teaching their children how to tie their own shoes! It's a little ridiculous. If parents spent time with their children every day, most children would behave much better. Teachers are very busy and they have a state mandadted curriculum to teach. Students would not be so far behind if the parents spent more time with their children and teaching them. But now that parents are so busy trying to work so that they don't lose their house and so they can feed their children, it falls on the teachers to teach respect, manners and everything else because you can't teach curriculum if no one gets along and doesn't know how to respect or listen. It's great that the school is doing the WINGS program for their students but they shouldn't have to. I am one of those people who thinks that if you can't and aren't going to take care of your child than don't have them. The child suffers for your mistakes and it actually makes other children in the classroom suffer too if the child has not been taught how to sit still, be respectful, not blurt out and that they can't do whatever they want. Now there are some children who are very quiet and no one notices them and that child suffers inside. The schools feel bad for these kids and are trying to save them from living on the streets and dropping out of school even though the teachers are spent at the end of the day, everyone is under paid and schools are in jeopardy of being closed because there is not enough money to run it. I am happy that these kids are getting what they need but they should be getting it at home.

Rubenstein, G. (2012, July). The wings story: An after-school program helps students beat the odds . Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/stw-social-emotional-learning-after-school-wings-story?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: EdutopiaNewContent (Edutopia)&utm_content=Google Reader