what's wrong with schools these days

[catnapper]

I agree with cataholic!

My neighbor's kid is 1 and she's already reciting her ABC's... why? Because mom is constantly singing them to her. Mom constantly reads to her. Making learning paramount in the home helps kids enjoy learning and gives them a huge headstart in school.

I knew how to read by first grade because my mom took the time to teach me and did not rely on school to do HER work.

Hubby is a teacher and this is his biggest complaint, when parents blame the school for everything. He might have the kids in his class for 40 minutes poer day.... so thats 40 minutes worth of learning, right? WRONG! The parents never took the time to teach them proper behavior either, so he spends half the class acting like a policeman controlling the wild behavior and attitudes.

I see now that Ash is out of school on HomeBound just how bad it is in school. She is lightyears ahead of her classmates. She has taken on extra reading and supplemental work just to keep herself occupied. I ask her what she does in school, she says they basically sit around waiting for the teacher to finish repremandng students, then they start getting into work, and then the bell rings to go to another class. The whole process begins again in the next class. THAT'S from one of the top schools in the state, so one can imagine what inner city school teachers deal with when their school is listed as one of the bottom schools in the state.

Parents have a huge responsibility to treach their children how to read and how to act. They don't because they assume they'll learn how to do it in school. School is NOT a replacement for parenting.

[Samantha Puppy]

I agree with Johanna as well. My MOTHER taught me how to read at age 3. I would take books in to my kindergarten class and read them for show and tell.

[Laura's Babies]

The schools today are nothing more than free babysitters while Mom and Dad get on with their life! They have been to busy to teach them manners and how to behave so how are they going to take time to even talk to them, much less read to them or teach them their A,B,C's? How many of us know to many families like that?

[king2005]

I do blame many of the parents aswell, but the schools don't help either.