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Parents have abrogated their role for the education of their children--not all, but lots. One reason forthis is that Mom and Dad are both working 2 or more jobs so as to provide the "necessities" of amodern middle class life. With work, commutes and home they are, according to my experiences, too tired to get involved and also some see little hope of really altering a system run by managers with sinecures and teachers protected by unions more interested in their contractual rights than in educatingthe children. In my opinion the whole thing is a huge scam--not all places and not all schools--but enough of them to convince me that the whole system has to have a fundamental change if we hope toachieve any lasting results that are good. Our federal system makes this nigh on to impossible sounless there is a revolution in education we will continue to turn out students with worthless diplomasand send them to college where the only way they can get out is to pick a diploma mill, choose one thataccepts that a dumbed down student body requires dumbed down courses in a major that in the realworld would be useless unless your Dad owned the company. Students have an unerring ability to detectfrauds, fakes and charlatans--ask them about their courses and teachers sometime. Here is a fairlygood test for a High School sophomore--ask him to sit down at the table and ,without any reference books, write you an essay on ..................... . You will. in most cases, be horrified--I know I was.
More horse manure. My wife and I both work and we also both go to college when we are not at work. Despite that we still find the time to spend at least 1-2 hours with our son every school night to study with him and go over what he will have in school the next day. It is not the system, it is the parents. I dont buy the tired argument, it is a lack of dedication or desire to see their kids do well. It is simply too easy to let school do it all and punt the kids to the TV at night. It takes effort to stay involved in your kids life and effort is what many people do not put into their kids. I sometimes wonder if mine is the first generation that does not want or does not care if their children are better off then they are. I will always blame parents before I will blame schools, I have simply seen too many apathetic parents to believe that they are not a major part of the problem with the mobs of idiot youngsters crowding the malls of America.
HORSE MANURE! I was informed that this was a classy place!Not everyone has your level of dedication, your work ethic or your Weltanshauung. Have you ever taught in a High School or college? I have and my experiences lead me to conclude that we are all guilty.I learned this years ago and found it to be true--Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity. This works for cops, firemen, soldiers, teachers and plumbers.Best of luck with your child--your way is very good, but I doubt that many parents would have the time,skills, inclination and knowledge to replicate your efforts.
....I learned this years ago and found it to be true--Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity. This works for cops, firemen, soldiers, teachers and plumbers.....
Mark me down as a conspiracy theorist in most thing; not this... perhaps because I came to teaching late (through no fault of my own ::)) with an attitude rather like the some members of the First Estate in pre-rev France. I was, if you will, of the lower clergy, by this I mean I was one of those kids that grew up encouraged by a widoed mom that when I went to coolge I'd get a good education and do something. Good teachers (and a couple of poor ones) provided examples of what to do to get there (and not do when I did). Painfully average I plugged along. Teaching had gone the way of the liberal arts major and I had two academic majors, hence, no job. Years in private industry and public service passed and the chance to teach arrived. I side with partents like scout but mostly dealt with the other kind, the ones that show up only to complain or try to bail their kids out of consequences... if they show up at all. Oh check that... they show up the night of Open House if there is free food.BTW, think this (below) should be my new avatar? ;D
