‘America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?’
That’s the title of a piece from Jia Lynn Yang for the New York Times. They should be asking: Are public schools part of the problem? Yang: there is broad agreement that America’s children are not well…. In the face of an unyielding education system, more parents are discovering that their children simply don’t fit, a terrifying possibility when achievement in school can determine achievement in life. At that point, the best thing to do is to prove that your child has a mental disorder. With a doctor’s diagnosis, at least, adaptations are possible. In this way, the rise in diagnoses is also a revolt against education policymaking that strips away the particulars of people, treating them as interchangeable data points. The best teachers understand that every child has a distinct way of learning. This is especially true for children who fall outside the ever-diminishing definition of normal…. many parents are giving up on the system altogether (New York Times).
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Everything is part of the problem. Single family homes and even two parent homes, clear family structure is weak. Discipline is weak. Literacy begins at home, with speech, manners and reading. Make America Read Again, but not this cultural garbage. The classics. Adults have abdicated adulthood and let kids raise themselves. Treating others of differing opinions, begins with teaching a child to call someone, Mrs. Readingworth, yada yada. Thank you, Mrs. Readingworth. Not violating someone's personal property, their name, their person, etc., that all begins at home and is to be reinforced in grade school, in high school and not necessary in college because the lower grade teachers did it, the parents did it, the grandparents did it, the next-door neighbors did it, the best friend's parents did it, the aunts and uncles did it. It has nothing to do with location, race, sex, but with learning how to be a respectful, and continually maturing, human being, worthy of carrying their own name and the name of America.
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Everything is part of the problem. Single family homes and even two parent homes, clear family structure is weak. Discipline is weak. Literacy begins at home, with speech, manners and reading. Make America Read Again, but not this cultural garbage. The classics. Adults have abdicated adulthood and let kids raise themselves. Treating others of differing opinions, begins with teaching a child to call someone, Mrs. Readingworth, yada yada. Thank you, Mrs. Readingworth. Not violating someone's personal property, their name, their person, etc., that all begins at home and is to be reinforced in grade school, in high school and not necessary in college because the lower grade teachers did it, the parents did it, the grandparents did it, the next-door neighbors did it, the best friend's parents did it, the aunts and uncles did it. It has nothing to do with location, race, sex, but with learning how to be a respectful, and continually maturing, human being, worthy of carrying their own name and the name of America.
It is called cultural rot.