White working class boys' growing up environment 'not conducive to good education'

IMO public education is the biggest form of welfare. From what I see the more that is handed out by the government and received by the public, the more the public relies on the handout and the more entitled people become.

Public schools are now in the parenting role and wherever they see a parenting deficit the more they step in to the "rescue" and the cycle of entitlement begins.

Public schools serve breakfast and lunch, teach ethics, sex ed, relationship advise (isn't there an article posted today about schools teaching girls how to pick good husbands?), anti-bullying, screen for heath issues (some schools even have medical clinics which dispense birth control), screen for domestic violence at home, etc. They even provide bus service just in case parents are unable to get their own children to and from school.

The kids in this article are described as being from anti-school environments (they get no motivation or help from their parents to do well in school). I bet the kids in the article come from generations of welfare and the public school system. I think the school has played a role in creating this.

It is just like a father I know who spoiled his daughter. Throughout her childhood she got everything without any expectations or responsibilities placed on her. Now she is an adult. The father is now supporting her, her husband and their two kids. The father admits he created a monster. ( I don't agree with his continued support, but he is extremely wealthy and it is his perogative, and he did have a role in creating the situation, which he seems to be perpetuating, but it is tough now that he has grandkids that will be effected if he were to put them out on the street). The point is I see the public schools in the article are in the same situation, they are now dealing with a second or third generation of students that are used to the schools providing everything that the parents should be, and it looks like they are going to increase/continue the handouts.

My opinion is: the more/less expectations you place on people the more likely they are to live up/down to them. When people get stuff for free, they tend not to value it, that is what I see happening in the public school system. If students don't have any motivation to be in school and do not participate or turn in assignments, I think we should let them leave and tell the parents, it's up to them to educate their child now. As soon as a parent knows the responsibility will be placed on them, they might start to show concern (this may take a generation or two); or like one commenter suggested, if the parents can't participate in their child's development, then dock some of their welfare (same if their kids have ongoing behavior problems with no consequences or discipline at home)

When the schools treat parents as if they are incapable and incompetent at parenting, pretty soon that will be the only type of parent left in the public school system.

On my way home I noticed on a poster at a buss stop, one of the only posters I have seen (perhaps in my life) that has a picture of a middle-aged white male with a positive message to pursue higher education, someone wrote "I love feminists" in a talk bubble in black marker beside his face. I was thinking about going back and having him say "it's not violence, it's not fraud, it's not fascism if a woman does it!" It looks like feminists are allowed to graffiti up the boss stop without consequences, just like they are allowed to do anything without consequences or accountability.