Austin Adult Entertainment: Simple answers to the US education crisis don’t exist
Lesson No. 3: Adding insult to incompetence, too many teachers pass the buck and insist that some of their students don’t do as well as others because they come from a culture that doesn’t value education and from parents with misplaced priorities.
After a recent column in which I knocked teachers for resisting accountability, a reader in Indiana wrote: “Even the very best teacher cannot make up for bad parenting. Too many minority schools are full of students of single parent homes … the children are just a source of welfare income … the culture in many minority communities other than some Mexican and Asian communities is to devalue education. A community that values thugs, pimps, hos, gangsta rap, drug dealers, gangs, etc. produces children alienated from school and any authority. And the mass media glorifies these things while giving short shift (sic) to education other than to do your type of obnoxious whining about it is all the teachers’ fault.”