Bingo!
In our present society, the cycle of poverty is extremely difficult to break. I was lucky in that my mother, being British, was extremely independent minded. She worked hard to instill a love of learning in both myself and my brother. Unfortunately, my brother went down the drug path and is, as far as I know, being supported today by the government.
All of my friends when I was growing up thought I was odd for wanting to read books and engage the teachers at school. Their parents never taught them how to learn, and so learning was quite difficult for them. Until we devise some way of teaching parents how to better raise their children, we can't hope to break the ever increasing cycle of poverty that mires our government's social welfare programs.
well, part of the vicious cycle we are in.
Parents do not grow up in an air tight environment. The went to school and were taught to hate it.
Now the parents (and other so called adults) spread the myth that a god child has to dislike school and live for recess (which, BTW, does no longer exist)
Then the kids are taught that school sucks and the teachers stink, and TV keeps portraing school like a place where you go to to socialize and torment adults with no repercussion.
There are a lot of things that I liek about the current system, but more that I find stink.
Coed through middle school is detrimental to the student, studies have proven this a long time ago, Uniforms are actually beneficial, but for the life of me, I do not understand why kids throughout middle school ahve to have their individual schedule...but then again, I was raised in a system that did not lump all kids in one school, so you did not have to make accomodations for the bright kids and the brighter ones (since we all know, no snowflake is ever really dumb...)
And kids hate it because, well, it's not coherent, so they go out into th world, telling their kids that school stinks and teachers suck....