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Originally Posted by Iliftrocks
Parents are the main problem. Ultimate responsibility for raising and educating children is the parents...
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I agree with this.
Children with parents who take their education seriously will be more highly educated. Those parents will encourage critical thinking in daily life, teaching outside of the classroom and encouraging a love for learning. When those parents feel their command of the language or their understanding of science, mathematics, or art is not sufficient, they will find a tutor or will make the effort to hunt down free tutoring services. A parent who is focused on the education of their children will never assume that their child is learning everything they need from their schoolteachers.
Our failing education system is an extension of the failure of the American family. Over-burdened, hard-working parents who do not find time for their children are more to blame than the school system itself.
If parents were to volunteer their time en masse to help in the classrooms of failing schools, you would see a near-immediate turn around. Class size wouldn't matter as much in elementary education if you could break it down into small focus groups led by volunteers. High schoolers wouldn't be as ill-behaved if they had more volunteer parents at work as hall monitors or willing to tutor those who need more individual attention.
The special education system is bogged down by students who are not physically or mentally disabled but rather "emotionally disturbed" due to chaos at home. They are dealing with post-traumatic stress from a sibling's gang-related death, or they're dealing with the emotional scarring of parental abuse.
We need to remove poor instructors, yes.
But we need to train our instructors to deal with the war-zone that is our public education system.