From Deseret News archives:
Passing blame for schools' ills is no solution
So it seems only fair that parents should take their turn since we are more interested in placing blame than finding solutions.
Our schools were designed to create a living laboratory where kids learned the basic skills and values needed to live in our democratic society. Schools can still do that, except parents now expect schools to do the job families used to do in preparing children to start and get through school. Some appear too eager to blame the school for their child's problems, rather than first getting the facts. Some seem more concerned that their children have a good time, rather than persevere in completing school assignments. Then we wonder why we are falling behind in math and science.
School socialized us little barbarians. It taught us how to take our lumps just like in the real world how to persevere, and most important, how to respect one another regardless of our station in life. Schools, along with our churches and families, taught us "we are our brother's keeper."
Fast forward. Today, we have parents who are under stress trying to make ends meet in an uncertain world where they do not know whether they will have a job tomorrow, or if the business will go overseas. The family structure has changed, and while we spend more time debating about two mommies, we need to be worrying about how, today, we have more single-parent families, more two-wage-earner homes, many who have two jobs with (in Utah) 65 percent of married women with children working.
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