Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
We need a President with guts to look into the face of Americans and say our education sucks because the parents suck. Education sucks because we live in a society where its wrong to discipline children. Education sucks because those who are most affected by it have no autonomy (teachers).

Those that are in the profession can probably add more but there are so many reasons why education sucks and sadly minorities are getting that brunt of that sucktitude.
I disagree to an extent. You're not wrong that there are a lot of ****-awful parents out there contributing to problems in education, and that those ****ty parents range from the neglectful parents not taking responsibility for helping their kids to the overprotective not taking accountability for their kids' awfulness. However, I don't think you can place the blame on a parent when we don't provide current textbooks for entire districts, or when we hang on to teachers that have no business teaching children or cannot find new ones. As a society, we need to place a premium on the value of education, and take steps to make it a priority.