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"This is all stuff a good parent who actually TAKES RESPONSIBILITY for their kid does. If the first clue they have that their precious spawn is not doing their job in school is that they fail the freakin HIGH SCHOOL EXIT EXAM, they are NEGLIGENT, LAZY, OR STUPID PARENTS."

Yes, I get it. The public schools will need to be slapped in the face with reality before they do!

The schools have no problem kicking kids out of school if they happened to have a pen knife to clean their fingernails, or if they called some fag a queer, but its the parents problem if the schools shuffle them through until they get to 12th grade. Yes, I get it.

If the schools think a kid came to school hungry, they have no problem calling social services to intervene, saying the parents should be jailed for child abuse, Yes, I get it.

If the schools catch some kid dealing or using drugs, or in need of an abortion, they have no problem hiding that from the parents, and calling every liberal twit agency they can find to help the kids hide it from the parents. Yes, I get it.

Now if the schools passed failing students, putting passing grades on a report card until the 12th grade, if the parents that hired the teachers to do a job, didn't check the schools work for 13 years, it is somehow their fault?

Sell that to the liberals, I don't buy it! Get it?

Now if the schools passed failing students, putting passing grades on a report card until the 12th grade, if the parents that hired the teachers to do a job, didn't check the schools work for 13 years, it is somehow their fault?

Emphasis mine. If they didn't check the school's work for 13 years, yeah, it's their fault for not catching the school's crappy teaching job and escalating it or getting the kid out or both. I challenge you to find ONE parent whose kid got C's or better who somehow failed this dirt-easy test.

These parents only found out their kid was failing after failing an exit exam. They weren't paying attention. They didn't look at the kid's grades and see that they were piss poor. They didn't meet with the teachers. They didn't check the kid was doing homework.

I am NOT letting schools off the hook. The truth is that involved parents, catching crappy grades and crappy teaching early and finding out who's responsible (teacher, administration, or kid) is the first line of defense in holding schools accountable.

Making sure a kid gets a good education is the PARENT'S responsibility. Actually TEACHING the kid is the school's responsibility.

If you think parents should be able to drop their kid off at school and expect a fully educated kid at the end of 13 years without a bit of involvement, your faith in the nanny state is pretty damn liberal.