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Originally Posted by tony286
Thank you,Im standing up and applauding your statement  They did a study if a parent was active in a childs education. It didnt matter where they went to school. The problem is unfortunately most households if there are even two parents. Everyone has to work full time jobs to provide what one spouse used to be able to do. And you have the single parents that person has to work two and three jobs to provide. Little johnnys education becomes someone elses problem.
Example my brother does ok for himself, his wife doesnt have to work. His daughter goes to private school. My sister in law does 2 hrs of homework with the kid monday thru friday and then 30 mins of reading with her before bed. Now it really wouldnt matter what school my niece went to because my sister in law is so active. |
everything doesn't happen the same way it does in the one situation you are aware of. And you are wrong, even if parents are involved if the teacher doesn't teach and sucks and lets the kids run wild in the classroom then the parent is going to have to do 100% of the teaching when the kid gets home.
Single parent families unfortunately is a normal occurrence now and not all single parents can work two jobs and come home and make of for 8 hours of education because the school didn't do their job. There are schools out there where after freshman year of high school 50% don't make it back the next year and 98% wont make it to college. You can't blame 100% of the parents for being bad, the school has to be a big part of the problem. In a lot of cases both are failing. But schools could do a much better job if they fixed the system.
If we don't get education up in this country its going to keep going to shit. I don't have kids and in general wouldn't care. But i do care about what type of next generation we building and who is going to be running things when I am looking to retire. Even if parents were 100% to blame the schools could do a lot more and I just want the situation fixed going forward. The education system is broken.
I would venture to say most parents suck and most teachers are good. But there is a good bit of bad teachers and bad schools out there especially in the poorer areas. The US isn't ranked 30th in the world in education because of bad parents, its because the entire school system is broken and 50 years out dated.
Do yourself a favor, watch the movie then tell me what you think about the topic and see if it enlightens you. I bet there are a lot of facts that you are not aware of.
if you disagree with everything else and want to blame parents for everything then at least I think you would agree with this....
Why should it be impossible to fire teachers after just two years of working? Why does a teacher who does an incredible job get paid the same as one who does nothing? That right there is a big part of the problem.