You are 100% right. The school system is a joke. I heard a something on the radio a few years ago that when they took the 10 commandments out of school, that there was something like 20 negative things that went up. There were teen pregnancy, drop out rate, attendance dropped, drug use among teens went up, just to name a few.

Politics are getting in the way of what needs to be done. They are so worried about hurting someone's feelings, getting bad press and then not getting re-elected. Instead of saying keep your kids in school, it is not the teachers fault that the child dropped out of school or got arrested. Stay home and raise the baby and act like the parent should and not letting the child raise him/her self while you are out getting high and making another baby.

Bring back basic religion in schools hold kids responsible for their actions and blame everyone else but what the problem. They also need to hold the schools accountable. My wife has worked with other teachers that have cussed often while in the classroom, speak nothing but, slang and could not teach what so ever. But, they enough tenure and seniority that it would take the system 3-4 years to fire them and cost the school board a pile of cash. Instead they let them stay.

In most of our schools we have to provide a police officer to be assigned to that school. Because it cuts down on the number of runs we have to make. It was easer to put an officer there full time to handle the situation as they arise. Than to dispatch an officer. Talking with some of my friends that are that are school resources officers they have arrested over 70 kids in a school year. I'm sorry they weren't arrested they were taken into custody for stealing a car. We can't say arrested when dealing with a juvenile it hurt their self esteem. SORRY FOR THE RANT!