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Have you stepped into a public school lately? The schools, as a public service, are NOT FAILING the students.
Remember back in the "sixties" when everyone was just "doing their own thing" ? The "thing" they were doing is what resulted in the people who occupy the desks in our classrooms. Where the whole problem came from was the prevalent attitude of asking, "why do I need to do that?", and when kids hear their parents saying that...then guess what the children do!?!? Every little educational task that has been asked of students is challenged either by the parents or the students. Students are failing themselves.!

In parent/teacher conferences for 10-11-12 year old students, with the child sitting beside the parent, the parent has been heard to say, "I can't make him do anything,"......when a kid hears a parent say that, guess who 'runs" that house! The kid knows he is in charge and they get mad when they can't run a classroom of the whole school the way they want.

This country needs to stop pointing at "schools" as the problem. Parents and politicians need to look at where the problem really develops...within the home. Parents created the child. Now accept the responsibility for his attitudes.

The child's attitudes and work ethic are formed before a child ever sets foot in a school. Parents and students expect great grades for no other reason that they were there 90% of the time even when they do very little. They don't want to participate in the degree that the schools expect. "Give me what I want for a GRADE or my parents will call the principal or superintendent about you!", they tell teachers. Who taught the child that attitude? Schools work with the kinds of kids they receive from the families. Not all are great. And you don't win the Kentucky Derby by entering a plowhorse or one that is so lazy it chooses not to run even though it could.

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