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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Libs don’t believe parents should have any responsibility.

Do they ever hold parents responsible? No.[/quote]

How would you hold parents responsible? I'm seriously curious and open to ideas. Parents [i]should [/i]be responsible, but I'm not sure how best to do it.

Get child welfare involved? As the article says, that was the plan. The Child and Family Services Agency was supposed to investigate, which seems appropriate. But that "child welfare staff [said] parents were skeptical about cooperating with an agency that had the power to pry their children from them ... It’s like the police showing up.” So maybe it would be better to start with school staff?

Would threatening to throw parents in jail work? In a few cases, yes, but again parents would do their best not to help, and mostly kids would be worse off if their parents actually went to jail.

What are the "tough" options that would actually help?[/quote]

The reporting system was flawed, asking teachers and schools to report kids, in communities that have experienced kids being stripped from families (there is a whole history and trauma here). Neutral parties should look at truancy data and step in. Maybe kids go to technical schools or trade apprenticeships so they can earn money if they don’t want to go the traditional k-12 route plus college. [b]Sometimes kids just can’t keep up with the material and then truly, what is the point of school then.[/b] [/quote]

This is the saddest thing I've ever read. The point of public school is to give all kids an opportunity to learn. DC is clearly failing, on so many levels. Lowering standards to "what is the point of school" for these kids makes my heart hurt. [/quote]

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