Here is a Letter to the Editor which I feal is right on the mark regarding the problems of American Society.
"Your news article, "Report blasts state over dropouts" (March 24) should be the beginning of a continuous discussion about not just the problems in schools, but the complete failure of a significant number of people who create life -- either purposely or via negligence -- to take responsibility for the ability of that life.
You quote Harvard researcher Daniel Losen as calling a school's ability to graduate students "the ultimate measure of accountability." Society should do everything it can.
But no society will or should have to pay the rates of taxation necessary to deal with wholesale failure on the part of parents.
Even with responsible parents, some children will turn out poorly. But when children in an entire neighborhood starting elementary school are two years behind those from homes where parents have been responsible, someone should start asking some questions.
What is so difficult about a strong societal message that having children before you are literate in any language, or have invested in yourself such that you can actually support and raise a child properly, is about the worst thing you can do as a human being other than murder since you are most likely condemning that child to a terrible life?
As we worry about competing with other nations like Japan, Korea and China, not to mention our terrible trade deficits with Canada and Europe, perhaps we can finally have a conversation about how uncompetitive many American parents are. Why do they choose to have children they obviously do not care about, sticking the rest of us with not only the regular tax bill for schools but a horrendous total societal cost due to their negligence?
The bulk of the solution to this problem has to begin with responsibility by those choosing to create life, as no amount of donations or taxes will change dropout rates of 50 percent in many schools."
"Your news article, "Report blasts state over dropouts" (March 24) should be the beginning of a continuous discussion about not just the problems in schools, but the complete failure of a significant number of people who create life -- either purposely or via negligence -- to take responsibility for the ability of that life.
You quote Harvard researcher Daniel Losen as calling a school's ability to graduate students "the ultimate measure of accountability." Society should do everything it can.
But no society will or should have to pay the rates of taxation necessary to deal with wholesale failure on the part of parents.
Even with responsible parents, some children will turn out poorly. But when children in an entire neighborhood starting elementary school are two years behind those from homes where parents have been responsible, someone should start asking some questions.
What is so difficult about a strong societal message that having children before you are literate in any language, or have invested in yourself such that you can actually support and raise a child properly, is about the worst thing you can do as a human being other than murder since you are most likely condemning that child to a terrible life?
As we worry about competing with other nations like Japan, Korea and China, not to mention our terrible trade deficits with Canada and Europe, perhaps we can finally have a conversation about how uncompetitive many American parents are. Why do they choose to have children they obviously do not care about, sticking the rest of us with not only the regular tax bill for schools but a horrendous total societal cost due to their negligence?
The bulk of the solution to this problem has to begin with responsibility by those choosing to create life, as no amount of donations or taxes will change dropout rates of 50 percent in many schools."
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