Let's not coddle kids with rewards

After reading about the new Metea Valley High School in Aurora and their plans of implementing a new program that teaches students good behavior and rewarding them for it, I was absolutely amazed this is what our society has come to. Parents now only have to provide food, shelter and clothing while day care workers and school teachers can raise our kids and teach them how to behave.

Now we have found a scientific way to extend the good behavior learning process to help guide our clueless teens through high school. The powers that be have found everyone's parenting lacking so poorly that they had to create a plan to help guide our youth. I'd prefer to see them wear a bracelet and get zapped each time they behave poorly, but that wouldn't be politically correct or effective, I guess.

Maybe instead of our government trying to reform the health care system they ought to step in and teach America how to be parents again because society has obviously forgotten our job when it comes to parenting.

Many parents are clueless in teaching their kids the fundamentals of good behavior, simply because their own behavior is questionable, I hardly think the kids who were taught to act their age need to be in an environment where a program like this exists, and I hardly think we need to reward anyone, certainly not high school students for doing what they should be doing in the first place at their age.

If they don't behave, I think the consequences work much better than bribes to get them to behave. This program does not prepare them for the real world. Teach them to behave right or more likely than not end up in jail.

Dan Wyllie

Naperville