Seriously, what is going on here? If you follow the news, then you'll learn that school faculty members contact the authorities over petty stuff like a kid in New Jersey making inappropriate comments regarding brownies or a high school student exposing himself for a yearbook picture in Mesa, AZ (the guy got 69 charges of indecent exposure). Also, there are a zillion other instances of faculty members not dealing with stuff at school in a proper manner.
It's the parents. It is not the schools. It is
not the teachers.
The problem with America is no one wants to take personal responsibility. It is always someone else's fault.
The pokemon thread got over 4 times the responses as the
obesity thread. Everyone complains about the cost of healthcare and wants to blame Obama, Republicans, Insurance companies, fast food restaurants, etc. They want to blame everyone but themselves. We all could shave trillions off of future healthcare expenditures all on our own but we won't do it.
If a kid exposes himself in a high school year book he has broken the law. The school literally printed up hundreds of pieces of evidence of the crime and intended to distribute them to minors. All it takes is one parent or uncle or grandparent of a 14 year old girl to call the cops and multiple people at the school lose their jobs and have their careers destroyed. If all the parents at the school were cool and the school board was cool there wouldn't be a problem. No way anyone is going to trust their career to a group of hundreds of parents.
Once society started handing out trophies to everyone who participated this was the inevitable result. A kid gets the bad grade they earned and the next thing that happens is we have a complaining parent. Keep in mind the parent was more concerned with their substance abuse, affairs, conspicuous consumption, etc. than helping their kid with schoolwork. Half the marriages in this country end in divorce. And that's for the parents that even bother to get married. I really wonder what percentage of the children in this country grow up living under the same roof as both biological parents.
So we have the majority of Americans overweight or obese and the majority don't have a 4 year college degree. That's just two data points. The children of these fine Americans are what we are asking teachers to educate and we give them hell if the kids aren't just given straight As for showing up.
