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Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
THis is how NOT to get me to respond to what you're saying I am not going to be boxed into responding how you want me to.
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I have had a lot of conversations with people who have conservative perspectives. I find them, for the most part, dismissive of any opinions that are not the same as theirs. They are not only dismissive, but condescending in their responses. I, myself, don't intend to participate in those kinds of conversations. There is a way to debate with civility and open-mindedness. So what I was trying to communicate is that if you choose to respond in the former manner,
I am not going to carry on a conversation with you.
So my question to all of you is what happens to the children who are left behind. What happens to the children who, unfortunately, don't have parents who will advocate for them (either because they can't, won't, or don't know how)? Whose responsibility do those children become? What is the eventual effect on society if they are ignored or forsaken?
I mean you can say as much as you want that the family should bear
some of the responsibility, which I agree with. But families don't come in these neat little boxes and function like the Cosbys and the Cleavers, as some would suggest is the only appropriate way. Families come in all shape and forms, and the lack of a father or a relatively young mother is not a recipe for failure(says the product of a single parent home--with a young mother--who is now working on a doctorate). And the fact of the matter--which we seem to lose sight of in assigning the blame--is that it is children, who can not do for themselves, that pay the price in the end. I don't guess it is fair to children that they are condemned because of their parents or the systems failings.
Also, as a product of predominantly black schools for most of my life, including an HBCU degree, I don't think that a good education has anything to do with the demographic break down of the school. As an educator, I just don't know how this now child left behind act can really help--in the short or long term. It is yet another band-aid, that doesn't even begin to address the actual problems.
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