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By Dale\u00a0<\/b>Hoggat<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>
\nI am\u00a0a part of America\u2019s public schools.\u00a0Teaching for almost a quarter of a century provides insight to the changes that have taken place\u2026and times have certainly changed.\u00a0<\/span>
\nWe face tremendous challenges of generational poverty: methamphetamine production, under-age pregnancy, high school dropouts, and adult illiteracy. Violence, addiction to gambling and cheap drugs, and wrecked families are not terror-spawned acts of global proportion;\u00a0they affect too many lives. When parents pawn personal properties and overuse credit devices, they misplace their trust. When family members seek quick fortune and instant gratification in lotteries or local casinos, they repeatedly fail.\u00a0When children are exposed to entertainment previously considered as pornography and vulgarity, they are fundamentally imprinted with filthy conduct and attitudes.\u00a0When such lifestyle decisions and parental negligence are passed through generations, they transform from\u00a0chosen<\/b>\u00a0behaviors<\/b>\u00a0to\u00a0accepted normalcy<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>
\nChildren of such families are instilled with the belief that education and completion are unimportant. They fail to understand that personal hygiene is necessary for good physical and social health, and spiritual matters affect the soul. Frequently, chronic low-income results in children commonly and unknowingly passing the torch of depravity to their own offspring, and the cycle remains unbroken.\u00a0<\/span>
\nMy students have witnessed many bizarre instances \u2013 violent, murderous acts at home, drug-addicted siblings, and alcoholic and suicidal parents.\u00a0They have lost dads to divorce, moms to cancer, brothers to drunk driving accidents, and themselves to spiraling emotions.\u00a0One boy tackled his own father from behind to protect his mother from being shot a second time.\u00a0Another ran away from home to escape an abusive, alcoholic mother.\u00a0Still another had to unload the gun that he found in his sleeping father\u2019s mouth.\u00a0Yet all of these, and countless others, still made their ways to school the next day.\u00a0It is disheartening that school is the only sanctuary for some children as they crave genuine love, understanding, and security.\u00a0<\/span>
\nWe have heard of parents spending more time teaching their children how to fill out welfare forms than instilling an appreciation for an education that might remove them from\u00a0welfare rolls.\u00a0We have heard of mothers telling daughters that the more children they have, whether in or out of wedlock, the more government money they will receive.\u00a0Our government and our education system have, perhaps unwittingly, enabled and even encouraged such misguided attitudes.\u00a0<\/span>
\nSchools have been reactive in their stance on generational poverty. They always seem to be picking up the pieces, doing their best to provide temporary daily asylum to distraught children when ghastly things occur in their personal lives, providing countless \u201chealthy\u201d meals (as many as three a day) that get pitched in the garbage at the end of the mealtime.\u00a0Frequently school buildings are utilized after hours to provide free or low-cost babysitting services for parents.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe system is often reactive on other issues as well, and as such, programs and \u201cservices\u201d are rolled into the classroom.\u00a0Neatly packaged multimedia programs are actively marketed to local districts and state school boards searching for anti-bullying and behavior modification solutions.\u00a0Colorfully animated computer software programs, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars,\u00a0are sold\u00a0to administrators who are constantly (and rightfully) seeking to accelerate academically underdeveloped students.\u00a0<\/span>
\nWith all the reporting of mass shootings, teen suicides, gang activity, and continuing racial violence, educators are now trained in crisis prevention, student restraint procedures, and disaster response.\u00a0Teachers now must juggle academic responsibilities with behavior intervention and student safety.\u00a0<\/span>
\nUndoubtedly, 21st\u00a0century schools are different from the ones I experienced as a student.\u00a0Less local control and more federal regulation means supplementary requirements have been thrust into our public schools.\u00a0We often hear of the acceptance of curriculum that includes teaching of alternative lifestyles and multicultural traditions that would have had my own parents scratching their heads in disbelief.\u00a0We watch as the media tells\u00a0of another school that shuns Christian prayer but provides Islamic prayer rooms.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe bleak picture has been painted.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe responsibility lies with\u00a0the community and individual voter. Few educators awaken in the morning with an agenda to systematically erode education with chaos, calamity, and catastrophe.\u00a0Instead, most pursue the opposite, with the noble goal of positively affecting students, and indirectly all those with whom they contact, presently and in the future.\u00a0<\/span>
\nMy coworkers agree.\u00a0It is no surprise that they point to the ills of society and family dynamics as the source of crisis in education.\u00a0They recognize a decline in fatherly leadership, a decrease of wifely submission, deficient discipline, and diminishing respect among today\u2019s youth (all issues that are solved within the pages of God\u2019s Word).\u00a0Some may say my coworkers are passing the buck in blaming the failures on dysfunctional families and modern society, but that\u2019s an unfair accusation: unquestionably, most educators struggle daily to develop solutions to those very concerns.\u00a0<\/span>
\nA few years back, in a discussion of these concerns, one school principal told me that family problems\u00a0cannot\u00a0be fixed in our classrooms.\u00a0My response was to recognize that future families are in our classrooms today.\u00a0Victims<\/b>\u00a0of poverty and moral decay can be turned into\u00a0survivors\u00a0<\/b>of the same.\u00a0Even if schools fail to positively address the alarming trends of generational\u00a0attitudes of entitlement, individual teachers may succeed by directly implementing generational\u00a0<\/i>empowerment<\/b>.\u00a0I must believe my personal influence extends beyond the students in my classroom. As I teach, I advocate for future generations. Through the interest and relationships I cultivate with students today, I touch tomorrow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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