I'm going to go out on a limb here - when teachers don't get the support they need, and parents are more interested in babysitting (and/or a high GPA) than havi

I'm going to go out on a limb here - when teachers don't get the support they need, and parents are more interested in babysitting (and/or a high GPA) than having their child learn the material... Isn't this the most reasonable solution schools can implement? I mean, it's not ideal. Not at all. But the incentives and support to do otherwise are not there. Oh, and more controversially, we can't lay parents' attitude and child rearing directly at the hands of the baby boomer generation. The parents of current school-aged children were largely born after the 1980's now. Yes, people born '40 to '80 are shaping school budgets and curriculum. But they are not shaping how children or their parents behave.