First Point

Everyone has 24 hours in a day to complete their daily tasks. To get everything done within the 24 hours, we all must allot the time. Since there is so much to do, we all wish there were more than 24 hours in a day, but—that is all there is. This means that within a given day, if you increase the time allotted to one task, you must decease the time allotted to one or more other tasks.

Second Point

One responsibility of parents is to teach their children to behave as civilized controlled human beings, not as uncontrolled animals that behave according to their instincts. Parents have the responsibility to teach their children to be clean, courteous, and respectful and to keep their emotions and subsequent behaviors under control. For some children this may be a problem, but it is the problem of the parents of the children, not  of martial art instructors and their students.

Third Point

Martial art instructors teach students martial arts. Many of these students are children. A byproduct of the martial art instruction and training is that they reinforce the training performed by the parents of the children. The marital art training merely reinforces the parent training; it is neither a part of parent training responsibilities nor is it a substitute for them.  

Main Point

Martial art instructors teach students to be martial artists, not how to be civilized human beings. Parents pay the martial arts instructor to teach their children the martial arts, and they expect to get their moneys worth of training. If they wanted someone to teach their children the social graces, they would pay an expert in that field to do it. However, some parents seem to think that part of martial arts training is to help them teach their children to be civilized humans.

As everyone else must do, martial arts instructors must allot their time. As it pertains to martial arts instruction, they allot their instruction time by dividing it into class sessions of a certain length. To insure all students, and their parents, get their moneys worth of training, instructors plan their classes to cover the allotted time. When instructors must stop the martial art training to instruct, chastise, or punish certain students on the basics of being a civilized human, they must subtract the time spent for this from the allotted instruction time. This means the rest of the students in the class are not getting their full instruction time, and thus are in effect being punished. This means that because of the shortcomings of certain parents, the other students are not receiving their moneys worth of training.