[mrustow]

Your kid's in school only 6 - 8 hours. Where is he the other 138 hours/week?

I was just ribbing you, about your mistake. But since you forced the issue, I'll just have to teach the teacher. This is how you should have written the sentences:

Your kid's in school only 30-40 hours per week. Where is he the other 138 hours?

Or:

Your kid's in school only six to eight hours per day. Where is he the other 16-18 hours?

I understood your point, but you distracted attention away from it.

[2Trievers]

Darling ... MY POINT IS ... that parents have to be involved ... the OTHER HOURS (how many you conjure up) are THE PARENTS/YOUR responsibilty ... there in lies the crux of a lot of the probs we have in public education. Parenting is HARD WORK!

[2Trievers]

And I'll NOT take the blame for all the ills of public education. Daily I fight the stupid curriculum ... the top heavy administration paper shufflers ... the incompetent principals ... the union ... the lack of discipline and personal responsibility ... lack of supplies and texts ... NONE of it! You can be damn sure the kids who pass under my wings are loved, respected and taught right from wrong and personal responsibility. Given that no one gives a dang about them. There is NO father ... Mom is in jail and a drug user. The minute they leave the building ... (those "other hours" I referred to) they are going home (I use the term loosely) to abject poverty, crime, hate, early pregency, racism, the likes of which you could not imagine.

So home school, private school ... do what you have to do. But where there is NO parent involvement, whether it is in the city or the 'burbs . Chaos will reign. Kids will be raising themselves ... just like in the 'hood.

[GeronL]

if a kid is only being sexually abused an hour a day, is that supposed to be okay... because he/she has another 23 hours?