By a show of hands, class, the observations of a classroom instructor, a trend, translated…
My coworker’s youngest brother teaches at an elementary school, as a homeroom teacher; one day, in order to understand the family situations of his students, he’d conducted an oral survey of the class.
He’d called out the questions, “children with fathers who come home to sleep every night, raise your hands!”, “every two days?”, “three days?”………as he was, tallying up, he’d found, that there was a member of his class unaccounted for, he’d asked again, “Which one of you didn’t raise your hands?”, Hong, who’d usually been quiet, sitting, at the corner of the class, slowly, raised his hands, with ah very tiny voice, “My dad hadn’t come home to sleep at night in a very long time now………mommy said, he’d gone, to heaven already.” At that very moment, ALL of the kids turned their heads, to look at him.
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Reason why I’m telling you all this story is, because I know, that single parent families no matter how the families ended up with just the single parent, in the process of becoming a single-parent household, the child is hurt, and, the child who grew out of a single-parent household normally had undergone more difficulties in their lives, and had gotten hurt more so than the kids with both parents. A question that’s this sensitive, had my coworker’s youngest brother used an alternative method, like administering a questionnaire on paper, or made it into a homework assignment, then, it may have been more proper.
So, this, shows, how important it is, for us, the ADULTS, to take into considerations, that the children have feelings, that this instructor failed to consider that there may have been various different kinds of families of his students, and, it may have been better, had the instructor not asked for the students orally, and by a show of hands, he’d not considered that it may hurt the child’s pride at all.