I shortened this to make it more readable while keeping the main points of the article:
The Buffalo News : Life
Thursday, June 4, 2009
PARENTING
“Few parents realize the solution lies in their hands.”
By John Rosemond
Columnist
Updated: 05/25/09 9:39 AM
Since the 1960s, reformers have succeeded at bringing about significant reductions in both class size and the student/ teacher ratio. Their efforts have coincided with dramatic declines in student achievement.
The reason 1950s kids could be successfully taught in overcrowded classrooms (I’ve met women who in that decade taught as many as 95 first-graders, by themselves, and with relatively few problems) is:
1) Because they had been and were being properly disciplined in the home.
2) They were not the center of parental attention in their homes:
3) They were expected to pay attention to their parents.
4) They were not the object of great doing on their parents’ parts; rather, they were expected to do, to carry their share of the weight (Does anyone remember when children had chores and were expected to find their own entertainment after school?)
5) They were expected to do at school what they had been trained to do at home—pay attention and do what they were told. (Did I mention that these kids were also expected to do their own homework, without their mothers’ help?) This training obviously paid off.
In other words, today's parents are FULLY responsible for their screwed up, spoiled kids.
Not the school system.
Not the crap rap and other lousy music cultures.
Not their friends.
Not TV or movies or video games.
S parents have created the last two generations of lazy, irresponsible and clueless "children."
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