“...What are the the teachers and the schools doing about this?”
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Again not defending the education establishment but the teachers have to stick to the curriculum or find another job. The administration and the school boards set the curriculum.
Parents need skip their tattoo appointment and attend school board meetings and insist the schools do their jobs, join the PTA and marry the father of their kids. We need to insist that the boards of education and administrators get back to the task of teaching kids the basics. We need to stop pretending that we love our kids and make sacrifices for their benefit not do what entertains us.
“ stick to the curriculum or find another job”
Here’s a big problem
Until people had been leveraged beyond independence people would have said, “change the curriculum, find a job that teaches or be responsible for not educating future generations.”
But now people pretend that everyone buys this argument. It is socialist
Get a home. Live within your means and take control.
“Parents need to…”
No. They really don’t.
It would help if they did. But no.
How about ban electronics from schools until 80% can read at appropriate level...READING ( books) WRITING (with a pencil) and ARITHMETIC (by hand)