Posted on 05/15/2014 6:40:50 PM PDT by grundle
If it were up to me, we'd repeal the Child Labor laws and only require school up to the 4th grade. After that, if you don't do well in school, you get kicked out and you can get a job. If that happens, you have to stay out for a year. If you want back in, you have to apply, you go to a remedial school, and you better work like a dog or you get kicked out again and that's it.
I know it sounds draconian, but the reason these kids aren't doing well is not the spending, the teachers, the buildings... it's their motivation. Much of that comes from parents but some comes from the child himself. I've seen it a hundred times: parent tells kid "Get good grades and be good and I'll buy you an iPhone." Works like magic, which tells me that the majority of the problem is the children's attitude.
Mark for later... well said
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