I work with some enormously dedicated teachers. The best essentially work seven days a week. Some of them left much higher-paying jobs in the private sector, because they know the value of education. These teachers do so much to help their students, inside and outside the classroom.
I also work with some duds, and every honest teacher can probably say the same thing. They are weak in their subject area, lazy, and won't go the extra inch... much less the extra mile... for their kids.
Likewise, we have wonderful parents who support our school, and have laid down expectations with their children. On the other end of the spectrum are the parents who are completely disconnected from their children, who won't follow their children's progress (and then bitch to high heaven when things don't turn out well), who excuse criminal conduct by their children.
Also, the disintegration of the family in general hinders efforts at school. So many of my students who struggle academically or behaviorally are not in two-parent homes. It can't be coincidence.
Good people with bad tools and bad training still produce bad product.
Also, the disintegration of the family in general hinders efforts at school. So many of my students who struggle academically or behaviorally are not in two-parent homes. It can't be coincidence.
The disintegration of the family as the way to socialism was first articulated by Antonio Gramsci in the 1920s. His ideological heirs were the Frankfurt School in Germany. When Hitler kicked them out, they came to America and the Roosevelt Administration placed them in American universities.
The rest is obvious.
Socialist-entitlement schooling since the mid-1800s, secular schools from the turn of the last century, factory-like schools since the 1960s, and **completely** GODLESS schools since the 60s couldn't possibly contributed to the disintegration of the family....Nope! Not a bit! ( sarc)