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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pay teachers more.  Better pay = better teachers.[/quote]

It’s more the parents who are in a position to change things.[/quote]

But listen. The majority of school systems don’t have a lot of high or even moderate earning but checked out white collar parents, who could just get a little more involved or come down a little harder on their kids behavior and then everything would be wonderful. The majority of school systems have overworked and overwhelmed parents at best, and absent or abusive parents at worst. Never mind the language barriers. Kids are being essentially raised by the streets in many cases. So I guess you can say, oh it really is the parents in many cases. But you absolutely can’t rely on the parents to improve the quality of the schools and the quality of the students. It isn’t happening. But those kids still deserve a good education so they hopefully don’t end up like their dead beat parents. [/quote]

This is an honest statement. My kid attends a Title 1 and is having a great experience with great teachers. My kid also has two committed and loving parents, a safe and happy home, food, access to healthcare, no drug use or guns in the home, etc.

I mean, if you could waive a magic wand and make sure all kids had that, it would be awesome. But it will never happen, and there is no amount of "you need to shape up and be responsible" that will make it happen. And you can't police/jail parents into it because then you're just adding to the discord and trauma in the home, right? The parents might deserve it in some cases but it doesn't actually help the kids.

One thing I've realized is how many of the kids at our school have parents who are straight up too young and immature to be good parents. We know some parents who are a total mess, but we also know the grandparents (who do a lot of the parenting) and they are respectable middle class people. The parents had kids as teenagers, sometimes multiple kids with multiple people, they are simply never going to be functional parents. It was over before it began.

So I guess what I'm saying is that if you really, truly think that parents are at the solution, I highly recommend supporting very robust sex education programs, and freely available birth control and abortion.[/quote]

I’m a secondary teacher and this is correct. [/quote]

Yes! Eugenics is the answer. 🙄[/quote]

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