The Dumbing Down Of America

[runstowin]

The problem here is not the schools, or the government, these are symptoms of the problem, the problem is the parents who subject their children to this educational abuse.

[MikeBjerum]

The problem here is not the schools, or the government, these are symptoms of the problem, the problem is the parents who subject their children to this educational abuse.

Parenting! +1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...

No matter how good or bad any or everything else is it all comes down to parenting.  However, parenting is tough enough in a perfect world without the system making it tougher.  When society crosses the way you want to raise your kids it is tough, but when the government steps in and says society is correct ... 

[twyacht]

Parenting! +1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...

No matter how good or bad any or everything else is it all comes down to parenting.  However, parenting is tough enough in a perfect world without the system making it tougher.  When society crosses the way you want to raise your kids it is tough, but when the government steps in and says society is correct ... 

Totally agree. Parenting, divorce rates, daycare's raising children, other cultural "loosening" of what is acceptable, has created a downward spiral of the education of kids today, not just in school, but in their lives in general.