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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
Thats not a problem with the Schools or the Teachers......Thats a problem with the Parents and the Kids
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Yes and yes.
In the inner city schools most parents don't do enough to encourage or even
take an interest in their children's education. My brother teaches in the inner
city and my son special education in a poor area. Both tell me how the kids are
out of control because they don't get discipline at home.
At" Back to School Night" they are lucky if 2 or 3 parents show up. There are so
many problems with the parents on drugs,alcohol and lack of marital stability that
they live for themselves rather than their kids.
My brother tells me that many of the kids don't want to go home on weekends
or vacations because of the turmoil in their homes and neighborhoods. They know
they are safe in school and will get a lunch.
Children cannot learn in that kind of enviornment.
On the other side of the coin in the suburban schools the parents get involved too
much, afraid their kids won't be able to become Einstein's to compete in this world.
Teachers spend as much time with the parents that complain and stick up for
little Johnny as they do spending time in their class rooms.
Little Johnny is always right and it's the teacher that's wrong.
These kids are under so much pressure to become honor students and get into the top colleges they don't have time to be kids.
Schools and education are there for good learning, as the've always been, it's the attitude of the parents and students that has changed.
BTW Jim- I'm always amazed at how many of Debuch's probing questions suddenly get ignored or go unanswered too.
