The majority of parents with kids in school today were themselves in school post gimmel tamuz, where everyone was afraid to take a stand because “the children are in crisis. We have to treat then different”.
Big, bad mistake.

What he fails to notice, likely because he is a supervisor without practical experience, is that there is something called individuation. Just as there are children who require old school treatment, there are other individuals who require modern treatment (which too is old school, FYI). There are different types of students and therefore different ways of dealing with him/her.

Besides, compared with upcoming technology, brewing beneath the Nevada desert, for example, everything we have come to know as “modern” will be relegated to ancient history. Our so-called experts have spoken of the need for educators to nurture a mere 5 senses – look at the “sensory” playgrounds opening up in airports – that’s like grappling in the dark in comparison with what’s to come. We will have a lot to come to terms with. We will be facing a reality where old school ways will not necessarily be old, and what we call modern methodology will certainly not be new.

That’s a liberal excuse to throw out discipline. Children thrive when there is proper structure – which includes rules and consequences. They want an adult who leads confidently, not a “friend.”

No one is recommending harshness. While it is possible that some teachers were too harsh, today’s children suffer from parents and teachers who are too weak and don’t exhibit strong leadership. It is unsettling for the children and it breeds bullying and other bad middos.

Maybe that’s why parents aren’t raising their kids the way they were raised?

Maybe there is a reason we through the old system out. It didn’t work?

Who said that children in school today have “more fun”?
I am sure that back in the day children had a lot more fun, and it is not a secret. You can look at pictures and videos from back in the day and you see the kids are happy, they are joyous, they have real smiles on their faces!
They didn’t let every small thing ruin their spirit (“mood”).
“Today’s kids,” on the other hand, are a lot more depressed. Try to see them happy – you will first need to get them something special… and only then will you merit (only for a split moment before it is already considered the norm, which the norm is not a reason to be happy) to see them have a smile.
This is not fun! It is a ruined once-in-a-lifetime chance for childhood!
Let us all merit to have the revelation of our shofet, yoetz and navi – the Rebbe MHM – and march together to the complete geulah NOW!!!

When will we pick up our standard again?