According to a recent poll of parents taken at Parent Soup, one of the country's largest parenting Websites, many mothers believe school administrators and teachers also have a responsibility to teach kindness in the classroom.
Experts say today's middle schools and high schools can be breeding grounds for bad behavior.
They say a silent code of humiliation and intimidation often exists among teens, and it is one that teachers and school officials often have trouble addressing. Teachers also ranked social anxiety as the top worry among students. When wanting to fit in and be liked is the universal teen fantasy, school becomes the ultimate nightmare for every adolescent. Although most parents acknowledge that charity must begin at home, they also believe children are often more influenced by what they experience with peers and in the classroom. If children are provided with the proper basis for being good people, then our teachers and administrators would be able to focus more on the educational aspects of nurturing our children.