Great, so what do we do with them? > Schools are being asked not just to educate but to parent. I agree a hundred fold that schools are being asked to educate

Great, so what do we do with them? > Schools are being asked not just to educate but to parent. I agree a hundred fold that schools are being asked to educate and parent. Latch-key kids do happen and are probably pretty common. > If parents raise children who lack the basic skills required to function in civil society the burden can't and shouldn't fall on schools. (emphasis mine) Yeah, but it will. Now what? Parents aren't going to step up. Or are they? How do they? With all that parents, both very rich and business-focused; and poor and very busy to make end's meet, that aren't able to properly care or don't want to care for their children, what do we do next? People aren't going to stop having kids for a LOT of reasons, and I don't think they should. So, what's the next step. We can't just say "this sucks" and not provide some sort of next step. Maybe the first solution isn't sufficient, but what about the second? Third? Four hundred and thirty-second? An amalgamation of several? Unique per student per class? It sucks, but we have to say more than "this is wrong" in these situations. [edit: changed school per class to student per class]