Blaming the parents is not going to improve the situation. The issue is what to do, given such feckless parents, to mitigate their impact, isn't it?
No one is even having the conversation. No one is standing up to the parents and saying, hey the government can't solve all your problems. At a certain point you have to take a break from watching internet pron and read to your kids.
I support BLM but police can't raise your kids or fix your community. Trying to ask them to do that only leads to problems. Same with teachers.
Do you have children? Do you know what it is like to try and get through a lesson plan with a classroom with 20+ children when half of them come from homes where no one cares? At a certain point a teacher is going to focus on the half that pay attention in class and turn in their homework.
I am the son of a middle school teacher who works in a working class neighborhood. I visited him at work quite frequently and the key to his teaching style is communication with the parents. When he makes a promise or a threat, he doesn't back down from that. If a kid mouths off to him, he will call their parents. This is combined with rewards for answering a math problem or problems correctly, caring about his student's personal lives, and pushing them to excel.
None of those are particularly unique to him, but when I've seen him in action, the most effective approach was always contacting the parents in the middle of the work day. It also helps that he, unlike several of his coworkers, devotes more of his time and effort into helping kids. He teaches special Ed and it's his personal feeling that many of the students in his class are not mentally retarded or in need of special education. Teachers pass the problem down the line because they can't properly discipline their students.
The problem is a mixture of teacher apathy and parental absence. When I say "absence", I don't necessarily mean a parent is missing from a child's life. Rather, their discipline is absent.
