Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need to be diplomatic with adults in positions of power such as teachers, administrators, and parents.
Valuing & Respecting Authority are two important survival skills that all thinking individuals need to have if they wish to get along well in this world.
This is a true story. Click DIPLOMACY to read the story called "First Lesson in Diplomacy." Discussion questions are included with the story.
A. Teacher reads story to the class called “First Lesson in Diplomacy.” Discussion questions are included with the story.
B. Story Description: Picture this. You are in the seventh grade and need help with an algebraic formula problem. You go to your teacher for help. Unfortunately, your teacher has gotten older and sometimes experiences memory problems. Not knowing that this was one of your teacher’s bad days, you work your entire homework assignment based on this help. The next day in class, another student asks for help on the very same problem. That is when you discover that every problem that you worked was wrong. You angrily yell at the teacher in front of the whole class.
Links to 2 chapters for First Lesson in Diplomacy
Chapter 1: Debbie and the bad homework assignment
Chapter 2: Debbie’s gets her first lesson in Diplomacy from her father
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