But every time I hear him say something that’s not about the Clinton’s, I get seriously annoyed. Today it was a newsbite from a stump speech in South Carolina. Obama was talking about education. He said something along the lines of how there are lots of ways to make the educational system better but “if parents don’t parent, there’s not a lot we can do.”
I’m all for better parenting, and I agree that too many people look to teachers and the educational system to raise their kids because they’re either too lazy or too inept or because they honestly think that is how the system works, but his statement seems to lay the blame for the failure of U.S. education on bad parenting, and I most certainly don’t agree with that. I’d say that teacher salaries, crumbling infrastructure, wrong headed thinking about ways of quantifying school success, all rank higher on the list then bad parenting.
And even if bad parenting is the Number 1 reason why Johnny can’t read, we have to find ways to keep Johnny from slipping through the cracks. It’s not his fault his parents aren’t holding up their end of the bargain.
Vox Pop Sudari 