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Originally Posted by Eddie
Yuck. Phew. Pfft.
Those are some yucky words you're putting in my mouth, Rae.
Before I go any further, I just want to go on record as stating that my wife and I are not absentee parents. My wife drives my oldest son to school every day so he can go to tutoring early morning and then gets tutoring in the evening. She or I sit with our 8-year-old daughter and help her with her homework every day. My middle child is pretty smart and we never have any troubles with him. We maintain close contact with all of their teachers and my wife goes so far as to sit and make them do any assignment that they "forget about" and turn it in for even a marginal grade. I've gone so far as to shadow my son throughout the day to make sure that he wasn't goofing off and not doing his homework. So yeah, I have a right to talk about the system. Nevermind the fact that I pay my taxes which gives me a right.
I didn't say anything about teachers. I said the system is screwed. Funding priorities in the government are all kinds of messed up. Fuel costs are mandating that districts are charging bus fees. How many school systems are going bankrupt? How poorly are teachers paid? How many school districts have furlough Fridays (or the like)? I said that I know that Web is a teacher and that I hope he fights the system. I meant in the respect that he does the best he can. Not that he's lazy and not doing anything. But I don't know the man. Maybe he is. Maybe you are. But I DID NOT SAY THAT.
Contrary to what you and about five other core members of this board think, I'm not always out to say that you guys suck, my shit doesn't stink, and you are all retarded for not liking 2013. You guys don't like me? That's fine. Don't assume that I'm just trying to argue and accuse everyone else of everything.
You guys have a nice night.
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Eddie you sound like how things are with my nephew when it comes to helping your children. My sister and brother-in-law does the same thing..
The biggest problem with our education system has been the teachers unions. I know that sounds like talking points, but it's not. To many bad teachers are allowed to stay in the classrooms because they are tenured.
Yes, absentee parents are a problem. and that comes from the fact we have become such a materialistic society that it takes two (or more) income households to 'buy all of the crap' that they think they need. This not only has the problem of there not being a parent in the home when kids get home to help them with their homework (or just MAKE them do the homework), many times those two incomes are being brought in by ONE parent... and that's usually a single mother.
WHY?
Because our society has made marriage just as disposable as diapers. Look at how things are in England.. fathers don't have any rights. it's easy to end a marriage, and yes.. i know this from first hand experience. My wife is British, and took my sons to the UK when she abandoned me after the wreck. She's been shacked up with some guy since then and has a child by him, and we are still legally married. She's living on the dole there, getting all kinds of money from the government.
We don't have that here in the states YET... and in all honesty, i hope that the UK will change that. Because they don't have the money for that kind of crap anymore. But we are seeing how that's going over... all over the European Union we are seeing the nanny state countries collapsing because they don't have the money anymore, and to many of the "Dolists" are too self-centred to see that the free-ride they've gotten has to end because the saying of "there is no such thing as a free lunch" is way to true. Because someone has to pay for that lunch, and when you end up "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul"... Peter will one day get so tired of that, he's going to LEAVE.
I'm not saying that we don't need a safety net, but turning it into a hammock is just to screwed up.
While I didn't like the background of T2013, i've never complained about you and find you to be one of my favorite people to talk with and read on here.