State Laws Punishing Parents for the Sins of the Children

your comments show that YOU are one of the blames. too much junk on tv, so you just do the typical knee-jerk reaction and discontinue tv.
my kids started watching tv when they were very young. no....we didn't like a lot of the stuff on tv. so, instead of just saying no to tv....you take the time to teach your kids that not everything on tv is real. there are too many things on tv that are worthwhile.
and, yeah...my kids were both honor students and advanced placement students.
bottom line? you don't just take something away because you feel its not worth it. make it a lesson in itself.
sure...most of tv is crap. but, if you explain to your kids, instead of denying them, they will get a better understanding of things out there.

I completely agree with you. my Husband works over 12 hours a day sometimes longer for a IT firm I have to work in the day some very strange hours in order just to get my son off to school. He is austistic so he needs someone to make sure he is all situated before heading out despite his age. I have IED meetings twice a year thats not so bad... but when it comes to parent teacher conferences during the week when I am supposed to be at work instead of weekends. dinners and brunches at the schools and other various things they have PTA and so on. it is just tough to get to those when we Have to work. there is no option. I'm pretty sure there are other parents out there that are even worse off than I am . perhaps a disobedient child who is just hardheaded.. you send them to the bus but how are you to know they enter the school... there is only so much a parent Today can do without getting arrested to discipline a child today... schools cannot have it both ways.

Tammie, It sounds like you have a lot on your plate. Too much, in fact. In today's society it is a financial struggle to have even two children. How do parents justify having six children, then overwhelm themselves with having to have both parents working full time, not to mention also going to school working a your master's degree. The concept of "it takes a village to raise a child" no longer applies, unless you are blessed to have both sets of grandparents, aunts and uncles living close by to help. Even so, their probably working too and can't expect to be burdened with the care-taking of your kids. One of you needs to cut back drastically with work and leave the master's on hold till the youngest is in at least middle school (that's about the time they won't want you around so much). But, your kids are missing out on the one thing they need most in this world right now and that is attention from their parents. And please don't cry "we can't afford it". In todays society people should not think it is their right to have so many kids and then bicker when the schools ask for your participation. These are your children, for God's sake, even pets deserve better. Quit having more kids and start giving the ones you've already produced the one-on-one attention they deserve.

You should think before you had 6 KIDS, dahhhh

Six kids..smdh! If you and your hubby had stop with just one or two you wouldn't be complaining like the lame parent you are! Next time use birth control.

After many years of teaching, I saw a definite change in the way parents respond to the school's attempt to educate children. I was a single parent with children in a school system other than the one where I was employed. I wasn't a perfect parent, and I couldn't volunteer in the school very often. However, my kids knew that if they were late for class I would not bail them out with a phony excuse. If they didn't do homework, I would not make up excuses. If they were a discipline problem in school, I would not step in to shield them from consequences, and there would be additional consequences at home. My kids knew that the family was a cooperative enterprise, and their job was school, mine was supporting them. There were no excuses for poor behavior. If something was truly beyond their control, such as a lesson or topic that they could not master, help was always there. However, there was never any thought that they could argue their way out of a situation that they created. You might be surprised at the amount of flack I took for that approach. However, successful kids are the result.

@Tammie..you claim you and your hubby don't have time to help with after school activities nor get your oldest child out of the house on time bc you work and go to school and your hubby is gone 4 out of 7 days in the week? but yet yall found the time to keep having sex and bang out 6 damn kids???? You and your husband sound like two LOSERS!

Diagramming a sentence is a "basic." It teaches the parts of speech & their proper location in a sentence.

One of the most valuable things I ever learned was how to diagram a sentence. Was it fun? No. However, my profession requires me to read long and detailed material, my knowledge of diagramming has enabled me to ferret out meaning that might otherwise pass me by. Just because you can't immediately see the use of something does not mean or even imply that it is "useless knowledge." In fact, I personally think that the term "useless knowledge" is an oxymoron.

Spoken like a person who does not have a teenager.

Lawson is a liberal Democrat genius. You know, the people who don't care what your do as long as it's mandatory.

I'm sorry, but what exactly do you think happens at a job in the real world? Do you think they just let you do whatever you want your way? No. They want you to do things THEIR way so they get done. This is partially what school is there for, to get your child ready for the REAL WORLD.

So now, when your 4.0 wonder child gets out of college and finds out the real world isn't full of parties and easy electives and she can't find that golden job that lets her do everything her way and on her time, you can enjoy supporting her because you'd rather blame the school for trying to teach her a regimen than take responsibility for being such a great parent that you didn't even know she was ditching for months.

If you missed 50 days of work how long would your employer keep you? Or if you were an employer how long would you keep someone on your payrole that dumped as many days? No matter how brillent someone is if they are not there they are not getting the work done.

I am so tired of hearing people say teachers need to "do their job" or "teachers don't even try to help". As a child of 2 teachers, both teaching for 30+ years, I have been around the teaching profession enough to know there are great teachers and those that are not. But how do you expect to get great teachers when we pay them crap? Both my parents have master and phds and teach middle school science. These days people with those kinds of resumes are not teaching. They can make way more money somewhere else. My point is, if you want high quality teachers that make more of an effort you need to up their pay. An increase in pay will help make teaching positions more coveted, thus making it more competitive to become a teacher. With competition you can ensure better applicants get these teaching positions. And no, I am not a teacher.