Don’t Expect Your School to Raise Your Kid

by on September 6, 2009 · 6 comments

I wish my local school would use this answering machine message. Too many whiney parents these days, always expecting their school or someone else to raise their kids for them.

[Hat tip: Lenore Skenazy at Free-Range Kids blog]

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Adam Thierer / Adam is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He previously served as President of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Director of Telecom. Studies at the Cato Institute, and Fellow in Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation.

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  • Bob

    Yeah – it's funny – but it does cut both ways, doesnt it? There are parents who are the good ones – dealing with brain dead schools stuck in the last century who still believe children should be seen and not heard – and being 900 years old, feel no obligation to either learn or teach new technology. The video is funny – but our education system is miserably broken.

  • WD

    This is not a true story; although group of teachers did draft in response to frustration over school board policy and action, it was not ever actually used. Check out: http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/palisades.asp

  • WD

    This is not a true story; although group of teachers did draft in response to frustration over school board policy and action, it was not ever actually used. Check out: http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/palisades.asp

  • Bob

    Yeah – it's funny – but it does cut both ways, doesnt it? There are parents who are the good ones – dealing with brain dead schools stuck in the last century who still believe children should be seen and not heard – and being 900 years old, feel no obligation to either learn or teach new technology. The video is funny – but our education system is miserably broken.

  • WD

    This is not a true story; although group of teachers did draft in response to frustration over school board policy and action, it was not ever actually used. Check out: http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/palisades.asp

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