Parents, failing kids and blame

[malaise]

[seabeyond]

1. i gotta agree. nt

[Bloofer_Lady]

2. A lot of parents today are not raising their children.

They expect everybody else to do it for them, be it a tv or a teacher. If you are going to pop out kids be responsible and parent them, instead of trying to blame others for your lack of parenting skills.

[donco6]

3. That really is true.

Or they go right to the school board, skipping the school altogether.

[mrcheerful]

4. I guess people aren't old enough to remember how educators

of the 60's complaining that parents treated schools as day care centers and teachers as glorified baby sitters. Just more selective memories where the myth is better then the reality. Funny from what I remember of going to school in the 60's the parents of my classmates for the majority, wouldn't get on their kids unless the kid got the parents called into the office for some misdeed. When your parents have at best an 8th grade education somehow work was more important to them then school work or grades. I remember hearing parents bitching that the schools gave their kids to much home work, why the kids were in school for 6 hours they should be able to get all their learning during school hours instead of having home work to bring home that interfered with their chores.