Teaching Manners: Parents Or Teachers
In recent years teachers, “seem to have been put in the position of surrogate parents and etiquette experts, with increasing pressure to teach what used to be taught at home.” Are schools and teachers now given “too many parental responsibilities?”
“An education in courtesy must begin in the home if it is to have effect,” said Low, noting that by the time children arrive at school, “it is to start; indeed bad (and good) habits can already be entrenched.” Leave no doubt, “This education in good manners is a duty of parenthood, to be reinforced by schools, not the other way around.”
Have too many parents relinquished to teach their children manners?