Stop Blaming Teachers When It’s the Parents’ Fault!
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| Future High School Dropout? (Image from Flickr by izatrini_com) |
In today’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman had an op-ed that seems to bash the Ed Deformers and tell them to get off of teachers’ backs. However, rather than placing the blame for the achievement gap and other problems with public education where it belongs—on the defunding of schools and growing poverty among children—he places the blame on parents, as if they merely need to behave better and become more effective parents.
“Here’s what some new studies are also showing,” he tells us. “We need better parents.