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To: JohnM who wrote (246114)	3/2/2014 12:43:09 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) of 542148

I'm surprised you don't with the second. I am not saying that parents are "bad"- they just aren't there. When I was in school moms were home to make sure you were doing your homework, and not watch TV or play video games all afternoon. Also, moms generally made sure you ate well, and didn't come how and guzzle 3 Monsters after school, or take a Monster or Red Bull for breakfast. I see a lot of absent parenting- and there's a real correlation between the honors students having 2 parents, and one home, and the really problematic kids having one parent homes and little supervision. This isn't the school's fault- though it definitely becomes our problem. And I think it's one of the biggest pieces of the puzzle. Children need supervision, and if they don't get it at home, the schools cannot make up for that completely. We can play catch up, but we really ought to focus on making parents better at parenting. I don't know much about rural and urban schools- and they have special problems we don't see in my area. I think in those schools often there are almost no functional parents, educationally speaking- and that would be horrible. I don't know how you deal with that kind of ignorance, and I'm glad that's not my job.

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