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We have an epidemic of terrible parenting—what is the solution?
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Anonymous
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It’s not the teachers
It’s not the buildings It’s not because the kids are “dumb” or “low IQ” What is solution? |
Anonymous
| I don’t agree with the premise. |
Anonymous
There’s really no other cause to blame. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Burn what down? Displace kids from their schools? |
Anonymous
| Is it any different now than it used to be? |
Anonymous
| Send all of us parents to reeducation camps? Have fun managing our kids! |
Anonymous
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What precisely do you think is wrong with parenting today? Too permissive? Not attentive enough? Are you one of those people who wants to blame everything on working moms? Or maybe your focus is poor people having kids?
If you want to troll people into arguing with you, you have to lay out your provocation more clearly. |
Anonymous
NP. I think the OP is suggesting that whether a school is "good" or "bad" depends mostly on the parents in the district. As a thought experiment, if the teachers in a "good" district were swapped with the teachers in a "bad" district, does the "good" district suddenly become bad (and vice versa)? Similarly, what if the "good" district and "bad" district exchanged physical schools? On the other hand, if the parents of the kids in the "good" district suddenly enrolled their kids in the "bad" district (and vice versa), how would those schools perform? |
Anonymous
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Parenting is not better or worse than it's ever been in the recent past.
I'd argue that treating children like developing humans in need of support and education, instead of disposable little workers entitled to no particular consideration, is a step up from the 19th century. There is a small minority of parents who may go too far in catering to their children, but they're mainly concentrated in wealthy pockets of the world - like here. Other than that... we're all just doing our best. |
Anonymous
Is it though? After I saw the behavior of Loudoun County parents at school board meetings re: masking, I thought the parents in the district were horrible. But the schools there are highly rated. |
Anonymous
| NP, I think that parents giving their kids smart phones at a young age is a tragic and disastrous mistake. |
Anonymous
| Troll post |
Anonymous
| wrong forum, since the OP isn't talking about schools at all. |
Anonymous
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I have a lot of teachers in my family. Here are some things they report. (And they are all good teachers. I have no reason to think they're lying or exaggerating.)
1.) Being "done" with parenting. Post-pandemic, they are much less likely to enforce doing homework, getting good sleep, eating a balanced diet. Anything goes. 2.) Substance abuse. Kids show up late or not at all, sometimes traumatized based on what's happened the night before. 3.) Overreliance on phones/technology. 4.) Getting caught up in anti-teacher rhetoric. Kids feel fully justified telling the teachers that they don't have to do assignments. |