Education Rant: Missing Link

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Stacie "Greg Johnson" 
<smotgreg at h...> wrote:

> He had ever toy imaginable, but no crayons. Mom was too busy to 
> buy him any. Mom and Dad were too busy to read with him. I'm not 
> joking. At a conference where I suggested they read to him more at
> home, Mom's comment was they didn't have enough time and was there 
> someone I could recommend that they could pay to come in and read
> to him?

On the opposite hand, there are parents who really ARE too busy to 
read to their children, or even see their children awake, because 
survival involves working multiple badly-paid jobs with long 
commutes. The parents came to USA in hope of their children having a 
better life, but instead the unsupervised children go into gangs and 
crime. Then something that happens too often is they send the c
hildren home to grandparents to get them away from their gang, but 
instead the children start a branch of their gang in their ancestral 
country and start crime waves that their quiet rural villages have 
never seen before.

> Last school, ugh. Let's just say that overall the parental motto
> was "we don't give a hoot, and you can't make me." Why these people
> ever had children was beyond me. 

In many cases, because they're too stupid/ignorant to know about 
contraception. In other cases, because they were too drunk or stoned 
to remember to USE the contraceptives. A lot of the young teens think 
babies are so cute, and don't comprehend that it takes a lot longer 
to housebreak a baby than a puppy.