I'm not going to argue with you breh.
I have 10 years of working in public schools as a behavioral counselor, 8 as an in-home counselor, and have raised 5 children of my own.
There is no excuse you can give me for not being an active participant in your child's education.
I've heard every excuse in the book hundreds of times.
If you think you can rely on any public institution to do your job as a parent that's on you.
I left mental health and went back to IT because I was tired of listening to muthafukka's excuses and sob stories and I'm not going to entertain them here.
You guys are both right.
People with money to buy houses are only buying houses that are within good school districts. So the districts that need the tax dollars and need the parents who give a fukk to send their kids there aren’t getting them.
I was looking at houses in Long Beach the other day and the real estate agent gave me a piece of paper that told me the school district and schools the address was assigned to was a C. I don’t even have kids but I know that part of the houses value is tied to that grade. So I’ll pass on it.
This is happening everywhere. Money and resources being concentrated into the areas with excellent education to begin with and deprived from the others that truly need it. Resources that immigrant, non educated parents, and parents with high risk kids need. fukk, even not having money to run proper after school programs in shytty neighborhoods is a factor. A lot of these kids go to empty homes (parents working crazy hours) and are left to roam the streets alone.
The best parents in the world (even those who instill the fear of GOD and a smack across the head) aren’t going to save a kid from that. Especially without money to pay someone to watch them.
So ya...there’s parental responsibility there BUT the old adage remains true - it takes a village to raise a child.