[Teachldsseminary] OT: Losing Our Youth

[Mark & Carolyn Jefferson]

Please talk to your Bishop. He may or may not be able to do anything.
Perhaps if he would make a Bishopric visit for a few class periods it may
help. Perhaps the Teacher In-Service course could help. One of the girls in
our ward, years ago was teased by another girl in the class (and was
stopped) and her activity immediately starting drifting away. She is now
completely less active and far away from the church in standards. I don't
know if Rachel would have or would not have made the same poor choices if
Christine had not done this, but, the fact is that Rachel is not coming, and
now has five children that are not being taught the gospel in their homes.
Carolyn

> I cringe when my daughter goes to her joint Sunday School class.   There the
> teacher has a bad habit of humiliating (in fun so said) one of the  girls
> because she likes one of the boys in the class.  Also, when they play  hangman
> the 
> boys enjoy starting off with letters that spell bad words.  The  teacher does
> nothing to correct this.
> 
> How is the Spirit supposed to be in this class while this is going  on?  I
> asked my daughter what she could do about this and she shrugs her  shoulders
> "nothing."  
> 
> Sadly, to many teachers don't know what to do with the youth and end up
> trying to be "buddy buddy" with the youth.  Or they don't want to teach the
> youth 
> and just let them get out of control and take over the class, at least  from
> what my daughter tells me here in this ward.
> 
> My daughter Wants to learn so badly, but gets so discouraged when the class
> is disrupted by goofing off or the teacher making hurtful comments.  What's  a
> youth to do?
> 
> Thank goodness she has an AWESOME seminary teacher.
> 
> Pal