[AustinBill]

No amount of administrative policy or curriculum changes can make up for poor parenting. Good teachers help, but students succeed because they have the needed support at home. That means instilling a moral code and work ethic from an early age, and setting expectations that the child knows he or she will be held to by the parents. And I do mean the plural. Single-parent households are a both a personal and a societal burden and a structural disadvantage to any child. Yet is it impossible to even discuss this root issue in any public policy setting.

Historically, local communities and churches kept this problem in check by offering both support and a clear set of societal norms that were in place for the betterment of all children. Unfortunately, the "War on Children" has been a matter of political convenience for the past 50 years, and we are reaping what we have sown.

[wintertime]

In the documentary, “Waiting for Superman”, it was pointed out that the neighborhoods don't make the school bad. No, they don't!

( emphasis)****It is the **schools** that make the neighborhood bad!!!!***** (/emphasis)

Blacks are merely canaries in the coal mine. It is already manifesting itself in white America, as well. If generations of kids are schooled in godless and socialist-entitlement K-12 schools we shouldn't be surprised to have a nation of godless citizens who are comfortable with using the voting mob to get **lots** of “free” stuff.