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Nowhereman said:
How am I imposing unrealistic standards on parents?
Maybe it is impossible to monitor a child 24/7, but that doesnt excuse not punishing a child if it does do stuff that is wrong when it is out of your sight.



First off, you're assuming the children were punished somehow. The fact that a newspaper didn't report that a child got in trouble for looking up "nekked" pictures on the internet is not surprising, given the complete banality of that happening. A child getting punished for such things isn't news. If it was, the local paper would no doubt be filled with items about groundings, time outs and the like.

Second, you continued to imply (though with your current clarification you back off somewhat) that the parents are somehow "at fault" because they didn't monitor their children 24/7 and, as a result, their kids happened to find these naked pictures.

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Your points that children can do all that stuff like fighting, shouting etc is also laughable.
If you feel that a child should not be punished for this sorta stuff just shows why children grow up being social rejects.

If a child gets into a fight, the only way to teach it that it is wrong is to punish it.
The level of punishment might be different, but it is still punishment.



Your final sentence here shows you grasp the concepts I was discussing, even if you steadfastly refuse to grasp the conclusion.

As you, yourself, admit, we don't treat the children the same as adults. Therefore, its bizarre that you keep expecting us to in this situation.

As pointed out repeatedly, I think what the teacher did in her own private life here was completely unrelated to her job and in no way warranted her termination.

However, for the reasons listed above, that doesn't mean a person is hypocritical for holding that teach, an adult, to a different standard than a child. Its simply a recognition of the fact that children are held to a different standard sometimes.


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My "tangent" was relevant to the case in point, yet you keep pushing the topic into that direction rather than address it to the matter it relates.



If its relevant it bears discussion. You, yourself, keep bringing it up. As such, it is difficult to see any reason why you keep objecting to the discussion of your own "tangent."