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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach in a Title 1 school and my students are mostly well behaved. Most are not white and come from poverty mostly due to single parenthood. Poor behavior comes from parents not teaching their kids how to behave, absent of special needs. It doesn’t come from poverty and from being raised by a single parent.

I’m a single parent of a college DS. He was raised by me when his father left and moved across the country. I was also raised in a single parent household. My siblings and I were raised by our mother to be respectful and responsible people. People need to stop blaming things on factors that probably will never change (poverty, single parenthood) and take personal responsibility for their kids.

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I’m the YMCA group leader and just want to endorse this perspective.

Most of the kids in the program I worked in - kids of all colors - were from low income homes and often single parent as well. 80% of the kids were on vouchers. Most of them were reasonably well behaved for grade level.

I grew up in poverty at times and slightly more abundance at others. There was nothing about our bank account or the fact that we often didn’t have much to eat that kept us from learning manners and respect for authority figures in school settings. Don’t indict poor people as universally bad parents because that is far from the truth.

Meanwhile, the parents of the black honor roll student who is on video bashing a white student’s head several times into the pavement until she seized and has now been in coma for over a week are decrying the charges against their daughter, pointing out that she is an honor roll student and that she was defending herself against bullying.

As though whatever verbal disrespect the two of them exchanged before the potentially lethal physical assault on a girl half her weight could have ever justified that gruesomely violent response.

That is a failure of parenting, full stop. It’s a failure to inculcate reasonable morals while raising your child. [/quote]

I agree with this but would also point out something.
 I don’t condone what happened in any way, but bullying is a real problem that also has harmful affects and continues to lead to the death of people.  Be it suicide, mass shootings, fights, etc.   It needs to be taken  seriously and addressed.  But often it is not because kids will be kids or everyone needs to learn how to deal with one another or get thicker skin, etc. Again I’m not condoning what happened here and I don’t know all the details of what was happening before,  but most people don’t wake up and choose violence.  Something instigates or triggers that and all too often those instigators and triggers have been being ignored, until something tragic happens.
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