By requiring students to behave according to jGR, we reparent them, if that is needed, and with most kids it is. This is beneficial to a society in which bullying others and an inability to even look another person in the eyes and have a meaningful conversation with them has become the norm.
We in America cannot say that we are an educated people if we don’t know how to talk to each other. The idea that it is the parents’ responsibility is over. Parents cannot raise their children with the social skills they need if they are always working and if their child’s attention has been taken over by electronic devices.
Both the parent and the child have become too busy to have a conversation. Thus, with jGR, we are suddenly among a very few handful of adults in the lives of our students who can teach them the basic human interaction skills that they must have if they are to succeed in life. Giving them an inflated grade on the jGR scale then becomes a serious error and a disservice not just to the child but to society in general.
Our use of jGR then becomes, in this new light, a necessary part of society, and far more important than just teaching a child a language. Using jGR in the right and honest way can impact all levels of our hurting society. It can teach the child of poverty what interaction with others is all about, it can bolster the weak skill of the middle class child who is drowning in her electronic devices, and it can teach the rich bullies that they cannot behave in that way, that someone is there to stop them.