tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815287532094385757.post7097039419339259192..comments2024-01-22T03:19:03.841-07:00Comments on Eddie G. Griffin (BASG): Saving the Black Boy: Performance Based Litmus Test for EducatorsEddie G. Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13283895629656619113noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815287532094385757.post-30138660080680749872007-06-04T12:29:00.000-07:002007-06-04T12:29:00.000-07:00There is a performance-based litmus test for paren...There is a performance-based litmus test for parents. Poor parenting reaps more misery than increased taxes. The litmus test for parents? If the parent fails, the child fails. Many already pay multiple court fines and juvenile bonds to the justice system (if they can afford it), not to mention the heartache, headaches, and anxieties associated with troubled kids. Putting another nail in the cross of a stessed-out parent (usually single mothers) will do little to correct the problem, short of forcing the parent to become more frustrated, brutal, and abusive with the child. Sweeping the problem under the home rug may absolve us, as a society, from feeling any obligation to the child. But we have an obligation to help bear one another's burden (Am I my brother's keeper?) There are three (3) points of interdiction, outside the home environment: (1) School; (2) Church; and the (3) Streets. If the parent fails their primary responsibility of upbringing, then rest assured that there is no church influence in the family's life. When the schools assume the position that "parenting" is not their responsibility, that leaves only the Steets to shape the child's values and behavior. As a rearguard street soldier, I must try to catch them before they fall through the cracks or pick them up after they fall. I believe more should be expected of the schools when parents fail. Somebody should take up the slack, rather than say there ought not be any slack.Eddie G. Griffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13283895629656619113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7815287532094385757.post-69975697812645458742007-06-02T18:18:00.000-07:002007-06-02T18:18:00.000-07:00Eddie,how about this one: a performance-based litm...Eddie,<BR/>how about this one: a performance-based litmus test for parents! if you child continues to exhibit anti-social behavior, is continually tardy or absent from school, then the parents will have to pay increased taxes to compensate the public schools for the increase in manpower and special programs that are needed for their "bad ass" children.<BR/><BR/>maybe then, these parents will ensure that their children go to school ready to learn, and ensure that they are properly "motivated" to be attentive and engaged in the learning process.<BR/><BR/>i don't see how basing the compensation for an educator or adminstrator will help in a problem that is more than likely exacerbated in the home!<BR/><BR/>my daughter is in a private school, not because of the schools in my district, but because of the PARENTS who send their kids to the schools in my district!plez...https://www.blogger.com/profile/03637930826560736172noreply@blogger.com