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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents are pretty lazy these days in general. Anyone who works in a school knows this. Flame away. But nothing is ever their fault or responsibility, or their kids. This is our education crisis.[/quote]

Interesting perspective. I think that what the school expects of me as a parent and what the school expected from my parents are completely different. My parents were responsible for getting me on the bus.

As a parent, I'm responsible for homework, charging chrome books, spirit days, snacks, other dress up days, and a never-ending parade of extras. I do it and I support the teachers 100% but, seriously, my parents just had to get me on the bus.[/quote]

Right. My parents made sure we got to school and not much else. They've massively escalated the parents' required involvement in schools while simultaneously being irritated that parents try to get "too" involved. They also are not teaching some things in school anymore that I learned in elementary school 40 years ago ... they taught kids to tie shoes in kindergarten. I had already taught myself in daycare because I didn't want to nap and had to lay there quietly. But you know who didn't teach any person my age I know to tie their shoes? Their parents.[/quote]

Agree with this, and what is baffling is that SAHMs were more common back then. My mom was a SAHM and the expectations for her involvement in my K-12 education were so low compared to what I am expected to do now as a working parent. And sometimes my mom would not even meet those expectations and people would say "it's okay, she has four kids," where as now a mom with four kids AND a job would be criticized more, not less. Just a very different world.[/quote]

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