I am not picking on single moms at all as I believe they have nurtured many a family through tough situations. How do you get the average kid with rotten parenting to get a good education when that kid can’t behave in class past the third grade and at which point he starts down grading everyone else’s opportunities? Then the law says the best thing to do is to leave these acting out kids, in the mainstream classroom for as long as they manage to drag themselves to school. Then from about the ninth grade they start dropping out ,best case scenario, or worst case shifting out of the education system into the penal system.Those are the ones that don’t end up in “Special-Ed” I have worked in Special-Ed for a brief time and I can tell you special-ed with the exception of the truly disabled is a catch all for kids like I am talking about. Kids from screwed up families. We should not just sit around and watch rotten parents drag kids down acedemically anymore than we would tolerate other forms of child abuse.Those families go completely without consequences unless they are physically torturing the kids.I know, I was told to look for cigarette burns on a 4th grade kid because the fact that his two 500lb welfare parents who didn’t care if the kid went to school or not, living in 4 feet of garbage were not indication enough that something was wrong. Some kids from terrible situations do reasonably well inspite of the parenting of course. Those kids are the exception though. Why do kids have to depend on the luck of the draw of parents or some exceptional inner strength to get some leadership and a decent education in a constructive enviornment? Because our society does not care or dare to intervene.
