Health & Fitness
If You Kick the Dog, You Own the Bite (Actions Have Consequences)
A story of theft but little redemption at the PCCS Educational Park
If you kick the dog.. you own the bite (Actions have consequences)
This is an old saying (proverb) that implies that if you do something, you are responsible for the result/reaction. Recently you may have heard of some thefts at the PCEP (Plymouth Canton Educational Park). Just last week a student had an expensive item stolen and then passed on to several classmates in the same class.
Due to outstanding work by school/police staff this latest theft was resolved and the item returned to the student, however not in a voluntary manner.
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The PCEP handbook describes the consequences for theft or larceny as it is also called as ranging from “administrative conference” to a three-day “suspension,” or as I would call it, a three-day vacation.
In this particular case, the student receiving the stolen property was given all of a one day “vacation," while the other supposedly four. No apology, no recognition of responsibility and, as far as I can tell, no recognition by the parents that their child could be on the road to an exciting career as a thief. For some parents and their children, denial is a most wonderful thing. These students will now be placed back in the exact same classroom to perhaps try to perfect their art of stealing from their fellow classmates.
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Sorry. If you take a $1 item from Best Buy you at least get a ride and tour of the police station and you are banned from the store for certainly more than one or three days. I must assume that Best Buy is better at providing educational consequences for stealing than does our PCEP, which overall is a fine educational park, but in this case is somewhat amiss in recognizing that items such as theft and larceny are as important to teach as math and English.
A recent unofficial survey of Park teachers showed that among their major concerns were that 83 percent of staff were concerned about the lack of appropriate consequences for rule violations. While kids will be kids, I draw the line at larceny from fellow students, and we are talking not just a pencil but expensive and personal items.
So todays lesson plan or lesson learned seems to be, If you kick the dog. you get the treat.
