Sounds reasonable, the problems with kids today mostly stem from poor parenting. Well, on the outside that seems to be a reasonable position that is until you examine the inside.
For generations and generations the American public school system has been graduating students with little more then a 7th. or 8th. grade education. In fact it's so bad most 4 year college's have to spend 1 or 2 years just bringing public school students up to par.
The war on religion and the impact of liberalism on public schools has resulted in public schools destroying whatever moral fabric or educational value young children learn at home. This is the heart of the matter, the catalyst and the evolutionary trait of the problem that is passed on from parent to offspring. The parents are a product of the same learning environment hence, simply pass the experience on to their children. The children eventually become parents and pass the same along to their children.
The sexual revolution of the 60's (liberalism) is what eventually lead to sex education in the public schools. It is an attempt to address health issues associated with a sexual promiscuous society in which they created. The link between cervical cancer and multiple sex partners wasn't understood until one important fact emerged. The disease is virtually non-existent in nun's or celibate people. Along with a variety of other common diseases.
To have religious values in the home and instilled in your children only to be slaughtered by a liberal driven agenda in the public school system is not only a societal travesty but an out right educational blunder.
In closing,
Blame the parents, how?. The parents have been indoctrinated and educated in the same. If during 12 years of schooling you were taught 2+2=5 then who's at fault when your kids come home with the same mathematical outcome?. Surely you wouldn't know any different hence, the problems perpetuate.
Let's place blame where it belongs and quit hiding behind excuses or defense of an ideology that is not only destroying our youth but our country as well.
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Makya
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Apr 16 @ 1:05AM
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4 year college's have to spend 1 or 2 years just bringing public school students up to par.
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Angel1964
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Apr 16 @ 1:16AM
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While I agree with you for the most part…. Parents are the ones that should have control over what their kids do…. They crave discipline.. You have to start very young. They have to know how is in charge from the moment the can walk and talk… No, that doesn’t mean you have to be mean, just stern with them…Too many let there kids get away with stuff, then when they get older and act out.. It’s too late! If they through a temper tantrum, and you give them a cookie they learn this behavior is not only expectable, but it is also to be rewarded! You punish the bad behavior, and reward the good… Some kids, really don’t get enough attention and well do almost anything to get it.. Sadly it well get to the point where it doesn’t’ matter if it is positive or negative… I was very strict with my daughter… I’ve even had people tell me I was too hard on her… However, we were also very affectionate… She was, is and will always be my little love bug… Always gave me kisses and hugs, even in front of her friends, even when they would say it wasn’t’ cool… Parents that don’t discipline there kids are usually the ones that complain where people blame them for their kids bad behavior…
I also see what your saying about multiple sex partners.. However, that isn’t always the case when it comes to cervical cancer.. I marred the first person I ever had sex with… When I was 32 I got cervical cancer.. I never had an STD… I asked my Doctor how could I have gotten it, and is it something my daughter should look out for.. He told me No! Sometimes it just happens… So, if someone you know has had it.. You shouldn’t assume it was because they slept with too many people…
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edthepoet
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Apr 16 @ 6:26AM
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Of course at least 80% of the problems with kids today are related to bad or poor parenting. The school system don't raise your children you do, they are there to educate your child only, hence the tremendous extra burden we place upon them.
You can chart the attitude of children bad behavior with the divorce rate, as the rate increase so has the bad parenting, because a lot of parents remove themselves from being responsible by having zero or very little to do with the proper upbring of their kids.
Then, you take the added economics of being a single parent, which can be quite stressful on many levels because the parent truly does want to have more time to raise their children.
What is created out of this mess are poorly guided kids who are raised by their friends and other relatives, which automatically places an undesirable situation for all involved.
Then, I will add that liberal mindset you spoke of as a contributing factor when parent think their kid can't do know wrong and shouldn't have to be discipline either by them or the school system.
What happen over time, these kids become parents without great life skills, hence they become teachers as well. The downward cycle begins because the foundation of good parenting wasn't in place and now the some of the teachers are the by-product of this bad cycle.
Does this mean, there's no possible way of avoiding this no!
I am living proof the cycle can end and be turned around by being unselfish and not allowing what happen in your childhood to enter into your child future.
I was beaten daily, my parents were divorced when I was 6, my father was a drunk for most of my childhood years.
When I was 18 and I had full control of what my life was going to be about and I told myself whenever I had a child, they wouldn't ever have to go through what I did.
After 25 years my marriage end by my choice, during those years I was blessed to have a daughter, though we divorced, we both made sure that she wasn't ever to be used as a pawn in the divorced, we both choose to not allow our problems between us interfere with the proper raising of her.
I don't drink,smoke or do drugs, neither does my ex.
Long story short, our daughter is in the top 1% in the nation in her education and is totally awesome child in her own right on how she present and handle herself on a daily basis, because as responsible parents, we went to every teacher conference, PTA meeting and every event she had, then, kneaded that with proper combination of discipline and love.
She only hang around great kids, if any person she talks too begin to talk about doing drugs or want her to drink, she's just walks away and doesn't associate with them again. Her ability to be strong, was a direct result of great parenting, not her school teachers. Yes, we didn't make sure she went to a really great charter school with some awesome teachers, which was free and any parent could have chose to sent their kid there.
There are many great teachers out there, but it's the parents who fail them in most cases, just look at the city of Detroit where they graduate at a sickening 21 %.
I will bet you that the family structure there is totally messed up
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observed50
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Apr 16 @ 8:06AM
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That there are minorities as members of this web site...that's a result of liberalism.
That women and minorities on this site can read, write, and hold employment...that's a result of liberalism.
That women can inherit wealth, and have insurance...that's a result of liberalism.
That people can go to school at all...that's the result of liberalism.
That you can utter all the nonsense you want on here, and the Government doesn't come and take you away...that's the result of liberalism.
That people on here can seize most any opportunity they perceive and chase it...that's the result of liberalism.
That the American higher education system is considered the top in the world...that's the result of liberalism.
That we are no longer using schools as an extension of religious faiths...that's the result of liberalism.
That divorce from a partner of abuse and negligence is possible for either gender...that's the result of liberalism.
That you can constantly make arguments in a public space without any evidence, trashing people and the culture around you...the result of liberalism.
Now...if the Right had their way, with no government interference BUT for spying on us, making us pray when YOU want us to, making us participating religion where YOU want us to, making us have religion dominate us more because you've been misled into thinking it helps make the world a safer place to live (ahem...YOUR religion that is), and on and on...That's illiberalism, reactionary orthodoxy wishing and wanting greater human control...and that is where we see sects in Texas, the Taliban, Al Quaeda, and all those wonderfully religious folks who think they know it all because they got gods on their side who approve of how little they listen to those not like themselves.
Somehow, I note you miss talking about burning books and banning books. Too evidently Taliban to mention???
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alivenwell351
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Apr 16 @ 8:28AM
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Blame the parents, how?.
For not caring enough about their kids to be in a position to get their kids out of public schools and into private schools where they don't have to deal with a majority of the public school crap.....
That might sound cold and/or elitist, but it happens to be a choice available to parents if they care enough...
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yashaenka
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Apr 16 @ 10:06AM
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The Presumption in Favor of Liberty
‘By definition’, Maurice Cranston rightly points out, ‘a liberal is a man who believes in liberty’ (1967: 459). In two different ways, liberals accord liberty primacy as a political value. (i) Liberals have typically maintained that humans are naturally in ‘a State of perfect Freedom to order their Actions…as they think fit…without asking leave, or depending on the Will of any other Man’ (Locke, 1960 [1689]: 287). Mill too argued that ‘the burden of proof is supposed to be with those who are against liberty; who contend for any restriction or prohibition…. The a priori assumption is in favour of freedom…’ (1963, vol. 21: 262). Recent liberal thinkers such as as Joel Feinberg (1984: 9), Stanley Benn (1988: 87) and John Rawls (2001: 44, 112) agree. This might be called the Fundamental Liberal Principle (Gaus, 1996: 162-166): freedom is normatively basic, and so the onus of justification is on those who would limit freedom, especially through coercive means. It follows from this that political authority and law must be justified, as they limit the liberty of citizens. Consequently, a central question of liberal political theory is whether political authority can be justified, and if so, how. It is for this reason that social contract theory, as developed by Thomas Hobbes (1948 [1651]), John Locke (1960 [1689]), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1973 [1762]) and Immanuel Kant (1965 [1797]), is usually viewed as liberal even though the actual political prescriptions of, say, Hobbes and Rousseau, have distinctly illiberal features. Insofar as they take as their starting point a state of nature in which humans are free and equal, and so argue that any limitation of this freedom and equality stands in need of justification (i.e., by the social contract), the contractual tradition expresses the Fundamental Liberal Principle.
(ii) The Fundamental Liberal Principle holds that restrictions on liberty must be justified, and because he accepts this, we can understand Hobbes as espousing a liberal political theory. But Hobbes is at best a qualified liberal, for he also argues that drastic limitations on liberty can be justified. Paradigmatic liberals such as Locke not only advocate the Fundamental Liberal Principle, but also maintain that justified limitations on liberty are fairly modest. Only a limited government can be justified; indeed, the basic task of government is to protect the equal liberty of citizens. Thus John Rawls's first principle of justice: ‘Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive system of equal basic liberty compatible with a similar system for all’ (Rawls, 1999b: 220).
Liberalism comes in many forms but being liberal or not in any family ends at the portal of ones home. Parents are first and foremost the protector of those in their charge and are expected to pass on true life values to their children.
But alas people in general have demanded more and more of the school system and tried to offload their duties to the schools. The Federal Government has only made mandated programs in schools such as sex education a requirement to address a out of control permissiveness that parents either out of ignorance or laziness did not teach themselves.
The woes cannot be laid at the feet of Liberalism it can be laid at the feet of parents as the first line of defense for their children.
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Cynbaby
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Apr 16 @ 10:20AM
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I take credit for them when they make the honor role...when they do something "stupid" I blame the biological father
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LongRanger278
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Apr 16 @ 10:47AM
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when they do something "stupid" I blame the biological father
 humm, sounds like my ex-wife.................... 
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LongRanger278
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Apr 16 @ 10:49AM
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That there are minorities as members of this web site...that's a result of liberalism.
That women and minorities on this site can read, write, and hold employment...that's a result of liberalism.
That women can inherit wealth, and have insurance...that's a result of liberalism.
That people can go to school at all...that's the result of liberalism.
That you can utter all the nonsense you want on here, and the Government doesn't come and take you away...that's the result of liberalism.
That people on here can seize most any opportunity they perceive and chase it...that's the result of liberalism.
That the American higher education system is considered the top in the world...that's the result of liberalism.
That we are no longer using schools as an extension of religious faiths...that's the result of liberalism.
That divorce from a partner of abuse and negligence is possible for either gender...that's the result of liberalism.
That you can constantly make arguments in a public space without any evidence, trashing people and the culture around you...the result of liberalism.
Now...if the Right had their way, with no government interference BUT for spying on us, making us pray when YOU want us to, making us participating religion where YOU want us to, making us have religion dominate us more because you've been misled into thinking it helps make the world a safer place to live (ahem...YOUR religion that is), and on and on...That's illiberalism, reactionary orthodoxy wishing and wanting greater human control...and that is where we see sects in Texas, the Taliban, Al Quaeda, and all those wonderfully religious folks who think they know it all because they got gods on their side who approve of how little they listen to those not like themselves.
Somehow, I note you miss talking about burning books and banning books. Too evidently Taliban to mention?
I rest my case.
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Cynbaby
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Apr 16 @ 11:02AM
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humm, sounds like my ex-wife She from Rome too? 
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maneater
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Apr 16 @ 11:47AM
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While this may be true, Afterall Lincoln said, "The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow."
And Liberal Gov't has tied parents hands by acting gestapo and removing their kids, or threatening too.
I have seen good families ruined by the system who threaten to take their kids, even for doing what is expected, PROTECTING THEM!
When a parent cannot decide to treat their child alternatively, or refuse to give them the poisons the PS Teachers want them to have ( ritalin and other such garbage) then the parent is threatened, reputations are ruined, and finances are drained having to defend themselves and protect their kids.
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LongRanger278
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Apr 16 @ 12:48PM
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She from Rome too?
New York but the future Mrs. LongRanger could be 
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LongRanger278
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Apr 16 @ 12:55PM
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But alas people in general have demanded more and more of the school system and tried to offload their duties to the schools.
I agree in part but who was so eager to take on sex education, gay tolerance, origins of life, etc.? The public schools that's who. These are legislated mandates.
Can't blame the parents. Can you blame parents for tenure?
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edthepoet
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Apr 16 @ 2:33PM
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On the sex education part, I do have a problem of them teaching 8 year kids 12 should be the earliest it should be taught.
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LongRanger278
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Apr 16 @ 5:34PM
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12 should be the earliest it should be taught.
Why do they need to teach it all? Hasn't helped. Teenage pregnancy in this country is just as out of control as everything else with these kids.
Why don't schools stick with the basic's. Why do they find the need to to get involved. As I said before gay's are far more likely to be victims of abuse from other gay's not hetrosexuals. Why is gay tolerance making it's way into the public school curriculum's?
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