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Originally Posted by KSig RC
I probably could have dictated your post back to you before I even opened it, but hey . . .
Short version: prove it.
Long version: This is a gross oversimplification of everything science can currently tell us about childhood development. The reality is this "go and hang out" time has always existed, just in different ways - maybe it was spent playing ball in the past, but it was always there.
We now know that the role of peer groups is probably the most important part of childhood development and determination of personality. Blaming this all on the parents, while convenient, is pretty much fallacious. A teacher's unwillingness to stand up to a parent over a student's failures is only partially the parent's fault. A student's lack of consistent dinner/family time seems somewhat irrelevant if this time is not spent specifically promoting school, or (worse) is in a dysfunctional setting. Generalities like this are not a substitute for logic and planning, and they go a long way toward helping the problem, and not the solution.
Bad parents are a detriment to their children's success. Bad teachers use bad parents as the ultimate cop-out for difficult students.
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Why do you often have such an antagonistic tone? It's kind of weird to me.
Would there every come a point where you would allow schools to remove the most difficult students from the school?
Would there be a point at which you would allow teachers to simply refuse to meet with or address parent concerns?
Would you set up a system that prevented administrators from telling teachers how to resolve the issues that parents had complained about?
I really think you may be underestimating the influence that the parents have on people who can tell teachers how to do their jobs.
I agree that if the administration were willing to ignore parent complaints and back teachers in their grading and discipline then parents might be able to be removed from the equation, but since at the top level of school chain of command you have the elected officials of the school board, in many if not all places, it's not likely to happen.
Parents may often be used as an excuse; I don't dispute that; but they also in a notable number of cases actually prevent the measures that might work with the difficult student being used. Once a kid who doesn't already value school learns that the school has no authority, good luck.
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