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our trade goes by. its a shame

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shred:
I have a few friends in the teaching profession-- up through 16 year olds.  Without exception they say the single factor that influences how a kid does is parental (and grand-parental) involvement.  That's us.  With that, they do great, without, they're holy terrors.  What frightens the teachers is over the past 10-20 years they've seen a major decline in parental involvement, with the parents expecting the school to educate, discipline and take full care of the kids while they go off and entertain themselves as if they never had kids.

That "somebody else should take care of them because I'm too busy with myself" attitude drives a lot of the regulation we now have to put up with.  Before if a kid that should know better did something stupid, we'd blame the kid.  Now we blame (and sue) the system for not preventing the poor dear from 'expressing himself'.  So no lathes for you; you might stick your finger in the chuck and hurt yourself and your parents might sue because we didn't prevent you from doing something you knew was stupid or dangerous.

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