“I just do not blame the mother, I blame a system that has allowed things to go unchecked.”
For an INSIDER that it a remarkably kind posting. I’ve had doctors and other medical insiders tell me that I’m full of Shiite for objecting to them asking little kids about guns in their household. EVERYONE ELSE agrees with me...but to the ‘insiders’ it becomes a kind of ‘First Amendment’ thing to them, even if it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with political speech.
In this case, I speak to the OVERALL SYSTEM. I’m not an idiot and I do realize that there are a few good apples.
But I also look at how we rank in relation to the rest of the world, and then just how much we SPEND ON EDUCATION and just what we get for it.
Bottom line is that it is PATHETIC - and I simply have ZERO SYMPATHY for ANY PARENT that expects better. The kids in our schools (at least 10% now Illegals, another 2% or so, but rising: Middle Eastern ‘refugees’) are HORRIBLE...for a parent to care more about how ‘rich’ she appears to her neighbors because her kids get a ‘free education’ is just SICKENING. For years we lived in apartments, but kept our kids out of that system. I don’t think that I have to tell you the answer regarding whether they preferred mom at home, in the apartment, versus mom working, but living in a house.
That’s is my MAIN POINT here.
I can’t disagree w/ much that you say. When I really started to turn conservative on many issues is when I started teaching in public school. I see mothers who can’t take care of one child, so hey........let’s have 4 more. Kids who are basically raising themselves & exposed to things we can’t imagine. One of my little ones has cerebral palsy & her 3rd grade big sister is basically raising her. One day when she brought her little sister in she said, “I’m so tired.” You know, it breaks your heart & there’s a school full of them. When I say our dogs get better nutrition, love, & medical care than a lot of the students it is the truth. Their world is one of too much tv, noise, mom’s who have multiple children w/ different sperm donors.
I live in a conservative southern state w/ a conservative governor. WHY aren’t drastic measures being taken to stop this endless money drain on us???? There is no answer, but it is destroying the very fabric of society. We have more in common FRiend than we have differences.