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Originally Posted by berettafan
Would like to see what parents of grade school aged kids perceive as the greatest threat(s) to their children these days.
For myself it's drugs in schools, violence in pop culture and parents of his peers just not doing their job. (my kids are 5 and 10).
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I entered Kindergarten in fall 1967, just in time for schools in the S.F East Bay Area to begin integrating and busing. The schools went from Leave it to Beaver to Fort Apache in a short period of time. Drugs, violence in pop culture and poor parenting--across the board, not just in certain racial or economic demographics--was a problem then too. Hey, it was the turbulent late '60s.
My kids are 14 and 16 and in public schools. Good parenting and good teachers, combined with their own born-with work ethic and street smarts, has kept them on the path to success.
"There is nothing new under the sun." It's just your turn to deal with having young children in public schools.
Oh, and the greatest threat to our kids is globalization of labor and the race to the bottom in wages, especially in the United States. I half-jokingly (half-cynically) tell them that for the U.S. to compete with China we must become China, not the other way around. My wife and I have prepared them to be ready not only to have several job changes in their careers but to also be ready to go to where the jobs are, even if that means China.