Kids in school are not "kiddos" who need a mommy. They are students, they need educators. If they "frequently" need the "motherly qualities" you describe, and aren't even aware that pepper plants exist, there is something seriously wrong.
Which we all know. The whole thing is borked, and it's in no small part of exactly what you're describing as a good thing. Jaysus.
Kids in school are not "kiddos" who need a mommy. They are students, they need educators.
"Students" of the ages common in K-5th grade are children. Teachers serve "in loco parentis." Kids spend more time with teachers than with family, especially if both parents work.
Milk-and-cookies, sing-alongs, and nap-time are not scholarly pursuits, and no special knowledge is needed to teach kids the three Rs in K-5. At these ages, theoretical expertise in child psychology is no substitute for instinctively motherly qualities.
Who would you rather have consoling a child who scrapes his knee on the playground or gets glue squirted in her pencil-box? A scholar or a matron?
Jesus christ, you're advocating nap time, sing alongs, and milk and cookies as appropriate 5th grade activities over science and math? Fucking god, in 3rd grade I remember learning about stratocumulus clouds and times tables.
This is not "child psychology." This is arrested development and never-ending infantilization. K-5 is exactly when kids, if not deprived, develop their wonder with the world. They're not meant to be pampered like indoor cats, they're meant to be inspired, and to have their natural inquisitiveness bolstered by adults showing them that they have the ability to answer their own questions.
Even your example of "consoling a child with who scrapes his knee" is complete insanity, when combined with your completely bonkers suspicion of "non-motherly" teachers of children. The lady teacher says "ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?!?" a hundred times while the child explodes into tears and has to be sent to a safe space to cool down from his PTSD. The male teacher says "Alright? Not the end of the world. Shake it off sport and get back to it," and the kid learns a basic lesson about trucking on through (the slightest) adversity.
Your view of primary school education is exactly why we're as fucked as we are. You're advocating treating 10-year-olds like they're 2-year-olds.
All I can do at this point is laugh at you. You've literally said that cookies and milk is more important to a 10-year-old than learning about math and science.
Kids in school are not "kiddos" who need a mommy. They are students, they need educators. If they "frequently" need the "motherly qualities" you describe, and aren't even aware that pepper plants exist, there is something seriously wrong.
Which we all know. The whole thing is borked, and it's in no small part of exactly what you're describing as a good thing. Jaysus.
"Students" of the ages common in K-5th grade are children. Teachers serve "in loco parentis." Kids spend more time with teachers than with family, especially if both parents work.
Milk-and-cookies, sing-alongs, and nap-time are not scholarly pursuits, and no special knowledge is needed to teach kids the three Rs in K-5. At these ages, theoretical expertise in child psychology is no substitute for instinctively motherly qualities.
Who would you rather have consoling a child who scrapes his knee on the playground or gets glue squirted in her pencil-box? A scholar or a matron?
Jesus christ, you're advocating nap time, sing alongs, and milk and cookies as appropriate 5th grade activities over science and math? Fucking god, in 3rd grade I remember learning about stratocumulus clouds and times tables.
This is not "child psychology." This is arrested development and never-ending infantilization. K-5 is exactly when kids, if not deprived, develop their wonder with the world. They're not meant to be pampered like indoor cats, they're meant to be inspired, and to have their natural inquisitiveness bolstered by adults showing them that they have the ability to answer their own questions.
Even your example of "consoling a child with who scrapes his knee" is complete insanity, when combined with your completely bonkers suspicion of "non-motherly" teachers of children. The lady teacher says "ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?!?" a hundred times while the child explodes into tears and has to be sent to a safe space to cool down from his PTSD. The male teacher says "Alright? Not the end of the world. Shake it off sport and get back to it," and the kid learns a basic lesson about trucking on through (the slightest) adversity.
Your view of primary school education is exactly why we're as fucked as we are. You're advocating treating 10-year-olds like they're 2-year-olds.
Why be so rude about it?
I pity your imaginary children. I'll bet you'd send them to military school.
We're talking about 5 to10-year-olds.
All I can do at this point is laugh at you. You've literally said that cookies and milk is more important to a 10-year-old than learning about math and science.
You're a fucking silly idiot.