Fundamentally, I agree with you in all respects. Parents should be responsible for the welfare of the child, and that works well when you have parents who take a vested interest in their children to make sure they grow up to become well-adjusted and productive adults.
However, their are parents out there who are so disinterested in their children’s welfare that those kids are, in effect, are orphans. I was one of them.
If these kids were left dependent upon their parents for an education, they would receive no education or very little. That’s the part I have trouble with, abandoning children to the whims of parents who wouldn’t care for them or are incapable of caring for them the way children should be.
>>If these kids were left dependent upon their parents for an education, they would receive no education or very little. That’s the part I have trouble with, abandoning children to the whims of parents who wouldn’t care for them or are incapable of caring for them the way children should be.<<
You don’t want to see the point. The Public Schools ARE NOT educating them either. They can’t read, they can’t do simple math.
If these kids were left dependent upon their parents for an education, they would receive no education or very little. That’s the part I have trouble with, abandoning children to the whims of parents who wouldn’t care for them or are incapable of caring for them the way children should be.
I was one of those too Jonty30.
In my case, if my education had been left up to my parents, I would have been illiterate and working on my grandparent's cotton farm by age 12. As it was, the 4 of us were sent there every summer to work from a very young age. I was dragging a 50 pound sack of cotton by age 8 and 100 by age 12. School was my refuge and I knew that getting an education was my only way out - and with no help from my parents, who actively discouraged all 4 of us from high school and were SHOCKED when I decided to go to college.
There is no way I am an outlier...I see way too many disinterested parents still today.