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Are parents or schools to blame for low high school graduation rates?

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Parents		63%	227 votes	Total: 360 votes
Schools		37%	133 votes	Total: 360 votes

Parents

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by R Shimoda

"That's your job to make sure my kid graduates" is a phrase familiar to many school officials, but is it really true? Let's think about this. Most psychologist believe a child...read more
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by Donita Weddle

It was no easy choice to place the blame on parents for low graduation rates. The problem of low graduation rates is complex and multifaceted. It's a reflection of the current s...read more
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by Carolyn Tytler

Every school is mandated to teach the required curriculum. There are safeguards in place to see that this is done satisfactorily. Principals, division leaders, consultants, dire...read more
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by Ms. Inge

No longer should we shun the responsibility of parents. For far too long have we danced around the question of who is to blame for the low education rate among our children. Ch...read more
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by Bill Whitney

This is a very interesting and perplexing question. In today's permissive society, I definitely do not think that it is the schools fault. The schools are there and they want ...read more
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by Jimmy Ettele

We can turn to No Child Left Behind. We can point to the lack of funds to inner city schools. We can even shake our fists at a lack of a competent teaching staff. But when th...read more
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by Megan Steele

Having worked with emotionally disturbed high school students, the majority of whom didn't want to be in school, I can say with some confidence that parents are more to blame th...read more
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by Ron Busby

I am tired of people wanting to blame everything on someone or something other than taking responsibility themselves. It is the parents responsibility to raise there own childre...read more
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by Edward Flin

It is said that a parents role involves rearing a child, in this case a student. However the student must also share the responsibility for their education. There's an ...read more
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by Samantha Brown

I truly believe parents should be held accountable for the child's education. We must not hold the teachers responsible for our children's failures. The first and most important...read more
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by Top-Cat

Today, parents take a non-interest in their children's education, right or wrong as that may be. Why is this? I would like to know that answer, although I think we'll never find...read more
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by Sally Harris

Remember the woman who spilled hot coffee on herself after ordering it at the McDonald's drive-thru window? She sued and was awarded over $2 million. I recently heard of litigat...read more
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by Kim Sharpe

I think that all education starts in the home. Parents are definitely to blame if their child does not graduate. Its not the schools fault. The school exists to aid the child...read more
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by Lacy Cruz

Our value for education has shifted. I always think about Rosa Parks and all she went through to go to school, and I now see kids not showing up to school and failing. I see pa...read more
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by Bill Woffington

Whose fault is it when kids don't graduate from high school? That's a no brainer with me. I'm going to blame the parents although blame might be the wrong word. I would ra...read more
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by Catrina Freeman

Eny, Meny, Miny, Moe, Schools or Parents or Parents or Schools, which is to blame for children dropping out of school? It is the Parents responsibility to make sure that their c...read more
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by David Furritus

Now, this is a tough one. On one hand, we could blame the schools for letting the standards get progressively lower and allowing the students to gain more power over them. On th...read more
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by Aprellelynn

You and I both know what the first thing people think when a child does not graduate from high school. Let me say it loud and clear. "It's the parents fault". Are they right? Ab...read more
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by Adam Smith

Parents Parents Parents! There is no other choice. I understand how some parents like to point there crooked little fingers at the schools because they are too lazy or just don...read more
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by Sarah Hale

We're seeing the last of the 'peace out' generation, fade out as their children, us, are finishing, college, and high school, it real depends on the individual, and I don't mean...read more

Schools

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by S. Linda Jensen

I have two teenage grandsons both struggling in school. Both above average in ability and talent. What I see that makes me feel schools could help is that we have a system that ...read more
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by Shannon C

I am not sure that you can absolutely place the blame on either the parents or the school systems for the low high school graduation rate. It is a little of both. As the paren...read more
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by ClodaghMcKlin

Having been someone to be in the schools of this day-and-age, I have true knowledge of how these schools are working. I don't just listen to the news on TV that say what some sc...read more
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by Sharla Weatherford

Whose to blame? That is an age old question that never has a clear cut answer. As a mother of a high school drop out, I take some blame, but most I heap not on the school itsel...read more
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by Ann Palmieri

As a teacher for over 38 years, I have seen the decline of disciple and expectations. Without discipline in the classroom, a student cannot learn. In addition, a student cannot...read more
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by Matthew J. Geiger

In the debate on education reform in America, the question of who to blame is very important as it can be useful in determining where the greatest reform efforts should be direc...read more
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by Larry Burleson

There are three sides to the debates about schools. You forgot to put the student in here because they can be the problem also. With teachers there are a few things about them i...read more
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by Gregory Williams

It has been said that death and taxes are eternal. There is a third thing that should be added: the generational battle. The young don't like the way the old run things, the o...read more
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by Kalaine Fields

I am falling into the 'school' camp simply because the third option of government is not present. The NCLB legislation is laudable in that it sets standards, sort of. It require...read more
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by Keli Catherine Stone

There are many reasons why a child would decide to drop out of school. One reasons is that the student simply must help provide for the family. Fuel cost, food cost, and utiliti...read more
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by Marianne Greenwood

Twenty years ago, when I was a volunteer at our local high school, I remember coming home one afternoon feeling very confused and bewildered. I felt as if I just left a zoo whe...read more
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by Joel f. Buck

Giving only two options for who is the blame for a low high school graduation rate is not giving enough options. I think that there are many more reasons then these two for this...read more
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by Vannase Cary

Who is to Blame everyone that does nothing to help and child to learn from grandparents to the president we all have a hand that is who we need to blame. From a student that ...read more
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by Grace

I could be way out in left field on this one, but based on my experience with the school system, is I had of dropped out of school, they would have been at fault. I almost call...read more
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by John Journey

I am writing on this side because who are truly at fault fall under the cap of schools. It may not be this way elsewhere, but here in Oregon, the school administrators are some...read more

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