[osidak]

My wife was a 6th grade lang art teacher. She decided (and I fully support) to stay home with our 14 month old son. We both limit the amount of time a TV is on while he is awake.

The stories that my told me while she was teaching made me cringe. Her first two years where spent with below grade level students who could care less if they learned a single thing. She worked an insane amount of hours trying to get through to these students and at the end of the year of the 90 students she had she could only pass ~ 50 people. The principle of the school came to her and told her which 4 do you really want to fail. So of the 45 people that failed only 4 would be held back.

These student (remember 6th graders) threatened to kill my wife, called her racist ect on a regular basis. She had desks thrown at her when she told certain student to go to the office.

When parents where contacted they never showed as it wasn't their problem.

After two years she was teaching the gifted students and the parents where very supportive. Her class size dropped to 60 to 70 students and of those maybe 10 to 12 would fail every year. My wife would never curve a grade but she was always willing to work to help her students.

Was not uncommon for my wife to work from 7:30 am to 7 or 8 at night.

She will probably never go back to teaching and she will never let our son go to school in the district she taught in.

The Parents play a huge role in their children's education. If they care about learning so will the child. If the parent doesn't take the time to involved with their child's education, why should the child even care.

Some will most won't.