Parents make the Difference

The second installment about my paper that I wrote for a class assignment. Yes I expected bad results from the Tennessee state site regarding the Memphis City Schools, but I didn’t expect it to be such a gap between them and the state, let alone Shelby County. As I said one of the main problems I think is the parents. First not many of parents are involved in what their child is doing in school. Many parents do whatever they do and leave their kids to do whatever if they don’t skip classes they go to school and just go to classes and don’t care. The other case is when their children do something wrong the parents will take the side of their child. Even when some kid talks back to the teachers and some attack the teachers and they have no power to do anything. Some of the rules are ridiculous, for example if some student attacks another student with a knife the teacher can’t stop the student because the teacher can’t put hands on a student, so they have to call for help from security or the police to stop them. Poor teachers the system ties their hands yet they are suppose to discipline the kids and it’s only going to get worse.