Monday, January 26, 2009

Nerd News: University Chancellor Delivers Home Truths to Parents

Check this out -- some fiery words from Jim Rogers, university chancellor of the University of Nevada system, as he took aim at apathetic parents:

"Your only relationship with the education system is to ship your unprepared kids to school, not with the expectation of success, but with the demand that an education system, inadequately funded, develop and/or repair children that you as a parent did not prepare for school or support while your children attended school," Rogers said.

. . . "You have to take part in your child's education," Rogers said. "Your responsibility does not stop as they walk out the door to catch the bus."


HOO BOY! I don't know about you, but I'm kinda LIKING this. OK, OK, parents alone aren't the whole problem, but some parents are part of the problem, and that's just the truth.

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