Maybe it isn't the teachers; maybe it's you

In response to Martha Zoller's recent column, Laura Hirschfeld Hollis at Townhall.

The combination of irresponsible parents, pie-in-the-sky theorists and Education Department bureaucrats has turned public schools into laboratories where problems fester, education decays, teachers are set up to fail, and all children – yes, even those without emotional, psychological or development problems - suffer.

Unfortunately, America does have lousy parents.  But a substantial number of these parents could be – and should be -- held accountable for their children’s problems.  This would enable teachers to be teachers again. 

Yes, there are some ineffective teachers.  It’s true that we will always have some children who need special help.  And we will always need school lunches, social workers and other remedial and supplemental programs.  Perhaps it’s even true that  public schools will never be models of stellar education.  But if more parents would grow up, step up to the plate, and be parents, schools would certainly be able to do a better job than they can now.

Read it all.