Captain Buzzkill
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How do you fix parents though ?
There needs to be a much more thorough integration of parents within the educational culture. I don't know how often parents and educators correspond, but I'd guess that it's not that often. Having educators and parents engaging each other on a weekly basis will give both of them a better indication of where the kids may be falling behind. Parents need to stop treating schools as taxpayer-funded day care, and schools need to work harder to be more transparent and accessible by the communities they serve.
There needs to be a concerted effort to reduce the hypersexualization and delayed emotional maturation of our children, and a renewed focus in educating them in what it means to be a socially responsible adult. Our culture is inundated by themes of individualism, self-gratification, and irresponsibility- both social and sexual - and we actively reward people who are the worst possible examples for our kids, i.e.; the entire cast of the Jersey Shore. Particularly in the US, they grow up with an inadequate education on sex, due to our misguided belief that openly discussing sex and sexuality with our kids is somehow going to dramatically raise the frequency of teen pregnancy, or turn them all into gays. So, now you have egocentric, hard-partying, hyper-consumers, obsessed only with their own wants and the next piece of ass they can get, and eventually the odds catch up with them and they're forced to deal with the reality that they might be parents pretty soon. Only, not only is their emotional growth stunted; they're woefully unprepared for parenthood by a culture that has effectively taught them that children mean the end of fun, individuality, and irresponsibility. And we, as a culture, sit back and lament the lack of engagement, single parent birth-rates, and slumping education scores.
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