Dilemmas

A teacher must be aware the students are very critical of how other people see them.  Teaching them public speaking skills and having them do things in a group helps get rid of the magnify glass they put on themselves. One student talks about how to act "cool" by having a bad attitude.  Even in primary school interest in the opposite exists.  Girls sometimes feel they need a boyfriend since they're going to junior high.  A future to be junior high student named Sandy gives an account
           

In about  5th and 6th grade ... [we] was like "OK," you know, "we're getting ready for junior  high” you know, “it's time we all have to get a boyfriend...” So I remember, it was funny, Carol, like, there were two guys who were just the heartthrobs of our class, you know... so, um, I guess it was Carol and Cindy really, they were like just the leaders, and they got Tim and Joe, each of those you know. Carol had Tim and Cindy had Joe. And then, you know, everyone else, then it kind of went down the line, everyone had found someone...”

 

“The age of first sexual intercourse has decreased steadily over the last few decades and the average age now is around 16 and a majority of adolescents are sexually active by age 18.” I do no like this fact. They are so many other ways to find pleasure. “It is important to note here that many children and adolescents who are routinely exposed to violence at home or elsewhere are not especially aggressive." I wonder what the NRA thinks about that because they blame violence exposure as a reason behind gun attacks.

Some bullies attack because they have poor perspective-taking abilities, prevalence of self-serving goals, and belief in appropriateness and effectiveness of aggression. One good way to foster social skills they and others need is “Teach specific social skills, provide opportunities for students to practice them, and give feedback” I think this is a great idea. Not only do we need to teach social skills such as not dominating group work we should have group work to see how it goes and tell a student that they need to be less aggressive in the group if needed.


                         

                               (Here are some good ways to foster social skills.)

To promote social interaction among diverse groups the simple tasks of mixing up the seat schedule throughout the school year is effective. I wouldn't like that but it is a good idea. This may sound good but may not be. Some teachers learn people's names by where they sit and then it may confuse the teacher's ability to remember names. Teachers need to sensitize students' opinion of disabled students by getting them to think about the difficulties they face.

To end, consider this situation

In Europe, a woman was near death from a rare form of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her, a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The druggist was charging $2,000, ten times what the drug cost to make. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about half of what the drug cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay him later. But the [cold] druggist said no. So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.

A person is asked to make a decision between the legal law and the moral law. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. talks about this and the moral law is above the legal law.  Remember how blacks would get on different places on the bus and eat at restaurants where whites sit?  I believe that Heinz did the right thing. He probably loved his wife dearly and was ready to do whatever it took to make her better. What would you do? 

                                
                               (MLK Jr. states the moral law is above the legal law.)