21/03/2024
An open letter to my son's future teachers:
If you catch him cheating and you want to throw his examination paper to the waste basket, go ahead and do it. I don't want him to grow up thinking it's okay to lie and cheat. If he deserves to fail, then go ahead and fail him. I do not want him to progress in school with fake grades. Challenge him with the reality that he needs to do better. You no longer want to accept his project because it is three days late? Then reject it. I want my son to value time and deadlines. You feel like confiscating his phone because you caught him playing online games in class? Confiscate that phone. I want my son to know the right place and time for gadgets. You found out that my son was cutting classes? Go ahead and reprimand him. Tell him what he needs to hear, let him pay the consequences. He needs to value your worth as a teacher and as a second parent.
-Charmaine Sanchez Cantones