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To: Road Walker who wrote (267152)	1/6/2006 3:21:59 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571000

re: So it works both ways......parents have to commit and the school system has to be better run. Of course that's the solution. But right here, right now, there are a whole bunch of parents that want the best education for their kids, and they are in a lousy district, and they can't afford a private school. What do you say to them? They need to do what middle class, suburban parents did when I was growing up. They need to get involved and find out why the schools are so doing so poorly. And then they need to go about demanding change. As a group, teachers generally are very idealistic and they certainly are not into teaching for the money. All they need is a little encouragement and support from the parents. Unfortunately, that is not very forthcoming and way too often they are put into an adversarial position with the parents. The other problem, of course, is that the kids are more screwed up now than they were even 15-20 years ago. They are not doing very well from several perspectives. I don't think parents have a good sense of how to raise them........and too many values are getting lost. My sister and brother in law are having problems with one of their boys and they can't seem to get a handle on it. He needs strong discipline and for whatever reason, they can't do it. My cousin is having serious problems with his daughter. I've been trying to help them. They have finally agreed to take her to a psychiatrist. I see this kind of stuff way too often. And these are middle to upper middle class kids. These kind of problems make a teacher's life just that much more difficult. Did you know that nearly a third of the boys are diagnosed with some form of ADD? I've mentioned before on this thread that boys are falling behind the girls in almost every educational metric. Meanwhile, kids today for the first time are getting adult onset diabetes and other adult diseases. Some are manifesting the early stages of coronary disease. Asthma has become epidemic. These are facts and not anecdotal observations. And its not just the poor kids. Something is very wrong.......and no one can expect the schools to clean all these things up on their own. In the little time I've been observing in classes, I have seen some rather bizarre behavior esp. by the boys but also by the girls. And I don't mean they were being sexual with each other or fighting. I mean stuff like one boy breaking down and crying in class.....during the entire class period. Another boy so spaced out apparently from the drugs that they are giving him ADHD, that he couldn't stop yawning. A girl started to do a strip in front of the teacher while I was there. She was a mess. The principal finally insisted she be pulled from the school and sent to a special school. Frankly, I worry that I may not be up to what these kids need. So many of them look very lost. ted