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Re: How should we react to posts?
No offense to anybody here, but thinking that giving the kid a chance to apologize is being fair to the post does not resolve the issue. I did not see the original post, but the student at least showed some courtesy by removing the team's name and trying to address it as an issue instead of calling people out.
If I'm that student, I still don't think I did anything wrong because the "consequences of my actions" is currently several mentors (that I think do everything for their team as it is anyways) discussing how best to deal with me.
As for the actual issue - I have been involved (as a student or as a mentor) with three different teams that have radically different views on roles of students, parents, and mentors. It really is a culture-shock seeing how different teams can be set up.
A team in which the student's do all of the work often has the students wondering how it could possibly be better for the mentor's to be as involved as they are in other teams, but when they post about it (whether it be in a rather insulting post as it was in this case or in one of the other discussion posts), its always called jealousy, arrogance, or just plain ignored by the mentors having their adult-discussion on what they do for their teams on the forums.
Teams have a wide variety of how involved mentors are and there is no one "best" way to do it. However, some teams treat their students as adults and give them the responsibility of an adult. So on CD, especially if we are going to force students to "face the consequences of their actions" like an adult, the least we can do is respect students' opinions the way we would an adult's.
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Current mentor for Team #4064
Proud former member of Team #86: Team Resistance 2007-2011
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