Long rant... school budget cuts.

[BPelizabeth]

I totally agree with you Brainman!!! It is really unfortunate that the US school system...at least the public school, is so far behind the power curve with other schools in the world. And we seem to sweep it under the rug and continue to allow our states to cut funding. It boggles my mind why cuts to education even happen. This is our future....these ppl are going to take care of us when we are old... UGH!!!!!! I also agree with the parents being the biggest part of the problem in most cases. I see it all too often with my classes. I had a parent tell me that they think homework is bolonga and it is the teachers responsibility to teach everything. (this was someone that worked in the shool system) You can totally tell which parent helps the kid with homework and which does not. Which parent helps practicing spelling .....and which does not. We have several kids in class that within a 3 week period are missing up to 30 assignments. We always run a missing assignment report...pull the assignments and send a packet home to their parents with their current failing grades. We maybe get 1/2 back. Now we know which kids to send it home to their parents and which to send to study hall to complete as the parents will not supervise and ensure they complete. This is only second grade.... Oye if my child ever pulled that ....he would loose everything and be grounded for oh I dunno....the rest of his life!!!! lol