HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS

Lesson Eighteen

TEACHERS (3):

HOW WE SHOULD BEHAVE IN SCHOOL

Burden to Impart:

School is God's arrangement for us. Not only does the society require children to get an education, their future requires it. So all over the earth schools have been set up to help the parents to educate their children. The children should respect and obey their teachers and other school workers as they do their parents, for school is God's arrangement for their training and education in the first stage of their life.

Facts to Teach:

1. The children need to realize that going to school is God's arrangement for them. It is not an unplanned accident. It is not a necessary evil either. It is not a misfortune. It is God's arrangement. Because school greatly affects the children's lives today and in the future, it is very carefully planned and carried out. Going to school is so important that it is usually required by law and is not even left up to the parents' decision. It is a must. Society requires it and the preparation for the future requires it. It is God's arrangement.
2. Because our education and going to school is one of the most important matters in our human life as we grow up, it must be very carefully arranged for our development and benefit. No one person is able to plan and carry out such a great program. Many details are brought into consideration:
   1. Subjects to study (textbooks, projects, etc.)
   2. Recreation time (recess, equipment, playgrounds, etc.)
   3. Meals (cafeteria, kitchen, food storage, workers, etc.)
   4. Administration (superintendents, principals, vice principals, school boards: to oversee the teachers and handle any difficulties or problems that arise with the students)
3. No parent likes to leave their children in the hands of others for so many hours during the day. Yet, because most parents are not able to teach their children everything they need to learn, they send their children to school. They trust in the school to properly supervise their children, to protect their ch41dren and keep them safe from any bad persons or dangers, to properly teach their children and to correct and discipline them if they misbehave. For about half of the children's day the parents are trusting the school to take the position of the children's parents.
4. The children should therefore respect and obey their teachers as they would their parents. They should also gladly subject themselves to the rules of the school and its administrators so that they will not cause trouble. Church children should be different in many positive ways from tile worldly children, taking school as God's arrangement for them.