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>At some point blame needs to transcend individuals We're not anywhere near that point. Half the people here place no responsibility on the parent. At all. So

>At some point blame needs to transcend individuals We're not anywhere near that point. Half the people here place no responsibility on the parent. At all. So maybe we should actually try this 'individual responsibility' thing before blaming the system, or aliens, or the Illuminati.

ALittleLight 6y ago
The individuals are to blame, for sure, but so is the institution (at least) for failing so many students. Imagine a single teacher who fails 80% of his class while most teachers fail only 5-10%. Perhaps the single teacher is just unlucky that 80% of his students have no "individual responsibility" - or maybe there are other issues at play. This is even more true, I think, when it is not a single teacher whose class is failing but a school's, and, I expect, a large part of that school system is failing. We should investigate and understand why and a satisfactory answer is not that one particular mother and child were derelict.