Quote Originally Posted by Bdawg View Post
Yep. That’s not the problem. It’s the people running it and the parents producing these children that are not brought up properly.
We do invest money in education, but it is all undone if parents are not directly engaged in the education of their kids.

Too much time and energy is wasted on kids that literally do not know how to mind their manners in public. Too much time and energy wasted on kids that are not ready to show up and learn. Half of life?s success is simply being engaged and ready to do the thing people are telling you to do. Seriously. From 1st grade through graduating college, you do what your supposed to do and be engaged and you will succeed. It literally is that easy.

Now with parents that are working two jobs with too many kids, where is the time? That is why I fully support all measures to control when and how you build a family. Birth control, education, abortion before 23 weeks, etc. get women educated and it helps with this. The issue is dumb people passing on their stupid ass ways of life to the next generation over and over.

My daughter is the kid of two college graduates. We push her all the time on concepts of life beyond what she is currently working on at school. She understands the value of a dollar. She understands higher levels of math far beyond what she is being taught in school. Why? Because I was teaching her multiplication on a white board during COVID as the teachers were teaching adding and subtracting. She goes to Starkville Public schools. Tax dollar per student the same as the 40% minorities in her class. She is light years ahead of them, because of her parents, not the school board and not because of the administration or teachers. Same for probably 95% of the top performers in the entire state.

Breaking the cycle of poverty has never been solved on a large scale in our country. Until parents understand they are equally if not more important than the teachers in their kids education it is never going to change.

There are things that the State can do to help. But it is a partnership with the care givers at home. It is less than half in control by local/state/federal administrations.

We have kids showing up hungry to school. We have parents that refuse to discipline their kids and get them ready to be a normal kid ready to learn at school. We have teachers being forced to spend half their damn time on kids that refuse to do what they are being asked to do. The system is 17ed. Until we get kids to behave, they will grow up and continue to victimize their own communities, because they are stupid and basically a waste of time in our society.

Long story short. Parents have to do their job, so teachers can do theirs. Teachers are not there to get your kid ready to learn. They are there to teach. Asking teachers to teach your kid to sit down and shut up and respect their teachers, IS NOT THEIR JOB.