OU professor: Youths' attraction to Sanders shows education failure

[Irving]

Our daughter's school is one that is doing poorly. Mostly due to parents who don't care. At least 10 kids have been absent from my daughter's class alone for Monday and Tuesday. Those two days were the government testing days. Terrible parents felt it was okay to keep their kids up late and be hung over in Monday, then miss again on Tuesday. The school district is going to take a terrible hit this year in performance and those parents will only have themselves to blame. We're active in our kid's life and it won't matter as much to us.

[Skip]

It's s little disappointing how negative you guys are. Home school didn't get a bad rap from liberals, it got that reputation from religious fanatics that sheltered their children from life in general. The only reason anyone knew those people existed was because the kids weren't in school.

Schools have been liberal and declining for a long time, certainly while I was in school, and certainly for members older than I am. Yet, there are still members of society that are not worthless lepers. School isn't completely worthless yet. MOST of your child's behavior should be learned at home, and when that is the case they'll be much more resistant to bad stuff at school.

The decline in aggregate doesn't concern me either, it's consistent with society. It's the fact that the "system" is designed to make every child a failure is what concerns me. IMHO, this is the biggest failure of public education and makes it worse than worthless because it can actually limit a person's ability to succeed in life in spite of who they want to be.

Home school (and there are many options) prevents the "system" from holding a good kid back. It's not an ideal arrangement at all, again IMHO. Just one of the only viable options for middle class families to escape the "system."

In DougCo we had vouchers for awhile that would help with private school but the Liberals killed it using the courts. The same Liberals that demand a monopoly on the failure of education.

Our daughter's school is one that is doing poorly. Mostly due to parents who don't care. At least 10 kids have been absent from my daughter's class alone for Monday and Tuesday. Those two days were the government testing days. Terrible parents felt it was okay to keep their kids up late and be hung over in Monday, then miss again on Tuesday. The school district is going to take a terrible hit this year in performance and those parents will only have themselves to blame. We're active in our kid's life and it won't matter as much to us.

You can blame those parents plenty, but parents didn't disengage until the social and economic conditions in this country changed. The Leftists have succeeded in breaking apart families and institutionalizing every member of the family. Another reason they want year-round school when all the studies show kids won't perform any better on the tests.

What kind of a person is the "system" going to produce in the future? One with no time for interests outside of "school" which consists of teaching kids how to vote rather than how to think and life skills. And it's harder to take on a job as well. We're producing 22+ year old children and wondering why they vote for big gov--they need a lifetime parent.