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It is easier (all too easy) for the parent to just blame the teacher, blame failure of the student on some disability like ADD, etc., rather than turn off the TV, put down that beer, get off the telephone and participate actively in seeing to it that the homework gets done and that the student actually understands the work. The parent is the first tutor of the child. If necessary, the parent should hire a tutor in specific subjects.

One of the advantages that a private school has is that it can make demands upon the parents. I have known children who attended private schools that required that the parent(s) sign contracts promising to maintain reasonable learning environments in the home. I knew of one private school that insisted upon mandatory attendance by the parents at a monthly meeting. ( I attended one of the meetings.) and the main focus of the meeting was Christian parenting principles.

The fundamental problem with government schooling is that it is a godless and socialist-entitlement and compulsory-use program. One of the symptoms of the underlying pathology of the government system of socialist-entitlement schooling is that the teachers simply can not dish out the heaping gobs of common sense advice that is needed. If they did they would soon lose their jobs and ( maybe) even be sued for discrimination.

We should not be surprised that a nation that has subjected several generations of children to socialist and godless schooling to eventually have a nation of irresponsible parents. Look up the Barna Foundation studies. The chances of a Christian child maintaining their faith after 13 years of godless indoctrination in their godless and socialist schools is dismal! indeed!

Two more things:

I bet paychecks, pensions, and long vacations have nothing at all to do with God's calling to the teachers in the government schools. No not a bit. Yep! My bet is He wants children to forced to think and reason godlessly. Yep! I bet He wants citizens to be under the threat of police and court action to pay for this godless and socialist indoctrination of children. /s

Obamacare ( just like compulsory and socialist single-payer schooling) won't be so bad in the beginning. The reason will be due to the values of the health professionals trained in the old system. It will take 2 or three generations of socialist-entitlement and single-payer health care ( just as in socialist K-12 schooling) for the true horror of Obamacare to be fully manifested. Then, the same arguments used to defend and reform out socialist-entitlement K-12 schools will be used to attempt to defend and reform the socialist health care monster.