Jon Carrol said;
It is truth often acknowledged but less often spoken that the main
problem with schools today is parents. Oh, don't argue with me. Yes,
there's not enough money and the infrastructure - whatever did we do
before the word "infrastructure" gained wide circulation? - is
crumbling, and kids today, whaddya gonna do? All these things are true,
but education is a 24-hour thing, maybe 17 if you don't count the
sleeping hours, and if the parents aren't gonna play the game, the kids
aren't gonna get anywhere.
But there are all kinds of ways to not play the game. Some of them we
are familiar with, and we decry them when we are in the decrying game.
For instance: parents who don't have enough time. They are single
parents, and/or they are working two jobs, and/or they can never get to
parent-teacher conferences because they are caring for an aging
relative, and all the other heartaches of these tough times. And there
are some parents who are none of those things, but they don't care and
they don't show up.
They believe that school is a scam, or a plot, or a waste of time, or a
babysitting service, or whatever. They don't ask their kids about it;
they don't check homework; they drink 10 bottles of vodka and leave some
Top Ramen on the kitchen counter for dinner. These are the bad parents.
Some of them even self-identify as bad parents and occasionally they
weep - these are often the vodka parents.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/29/DDFB17S4MV.DT
L
--
It's amazing what you can do. If...
you put your mind to it.
XML site map