There are a few black guys who show up at a long running political breakfast I go to. A couple of them have been following school issues and have been involved with the schools in various volunteer capacities for years.
They are in agreement that in many cases, we need a better class of parent before we will get better outcomes from our schools.
It’s quite a conundrum.
Single parenthood is at the root of a large percentage of school discipline problems. This is not talked about much.
Yes. Over the past decades, I think three things have become “acceptable” and these have hurt children very much:
Easy divorce - leads to single parent problem
Less stigma for being an unmarried Mom — more single parent problem
Most women work — kids are farmed out to day-care and schools and parents never really bother to parent — the “no parent” problem