Point The Finger at Who?

I have an insatiable desire to unearth the problem with under achieving that is set as an anchor on the backs of so many young Americans. Each time I thumb throw a book or hear a commentary on the television, my engine revs up at high idle. Another kid goes to jail, another kid gets pregnant, another kid physically assaults teacher, and another kid fatally wounded, My argument comes at a time when the economy has tanked. There is much talk and speculation that today looks like some of those gloomy days when soup lines were a saving grace. People with satisfactory jobs and skills to match are finding themselves in crunch time. This has to be even more of a daunting task for youths entering early adulthood who do not have a job, yet. Teenagers are becoming young adults despite the decline in the economy. Those that are ill equipped to nudge their way into everyday living only stand to be trampled in self pity.

Wherever life begins is the starting point to accept responsibility for how your children turns out in life. Sadly, this does not happen but in a few cases. When you miss your opportunity to effectively bestow upon your offspring the tools that it takes to be a strong individual force in society, then it becomes s societal problem to force feed your children what they don’t want to know. Society has allowed too many mothers and fathers to parent through default. These parents in many instances are overlooked and given credit for doing work with children they do not have a right to lay claim. When you look further into parenting through default, you actually see the make up in a household range from one to four children. The dynamics can be perplexing and misread, and often are in many families. In a household of four children where three children are doing well and one child is exhibiting behavior problems the quick read is the child’s the problem. The mother remains in the driver’s seat. Conversely, in a household with the same dynamics but the situation is two and two, you generally find the mother taking credit for the positive acting children.

So, are parents the problem with their children’s underachieving in life? Is the government (proxy) responsible for the underachievement of our children? Or, shall we cast the blame to the teachers? When it comes to accepting responsibility for the oppression cast upon young adults no one wants to stand up and say it is my fault. Whether there is one parent or two parents in the home or involved with the child, does your child have the basic ability to perform these three simple tasks: read to comprehend, do arithmetic, and comprehend English? Ironically, children entering eighteen-years-old or high school completion can not read or write logically and comprehendingly. A lot of energy is wasted in my opinion over whether adequate money is allocated to upgrade schools and supplies. If this money does not reach its target audience then it will be said that is why there is a problem in closing the achievement gap. Simply, the children can not read the books they have. Hello! LOL! The avenue on the surface that would suggest the most traction in improving children’s productivity in life would be the parent (s).

A part of learning is conditioning. Parents have a huge part in programming children’s behavior. The preconditioning a child gets before he or she goes to school can be the charge that diminishes the learning curve. Early intervention is a combined campaign where the parent and the government unify to form the onset in child’s life to nurture the developmental growth and learning needed to succeed. Teachers can teach and be effective when parents and their children are in tune. The school administration is not the community parenting association. They are ineffective when they have to parent and teach.