Reply #8: I don't think that you can categorize most parents as lazy. [View All]

[KitSileya]

They're overworked because of the backsliding of their wages, and they're clueless as to how to raise kids thanks to the generation of '68 who raised them refusing to set any form of boundaries - authority sucks, right? Without any good foundation for setting boundaries for their kids, and lack of energy to take that fight with their kids when they realize their kids have no manners, we teachers end up trying to do it ourselves, with the 25 kids in our classrooms, which will never succeed - if the parents cannot do it with a adult-kid ratio of 2:1, how can 1:25?

Tho' I don't agree with you when it comes to the laziness of parents, I do agree with you that the frustration this situation engenders in them causes them to latch on to the easy scapegoating offered by "opportunistic politicians."