The Sorrow of today's Educator

The Sorrow of today's Educator From the blog subject above you can gleam I am not an educator, not in the traditional sense anyway. This leaves me free for what I am about to say in regards to many public schools in the United States. In essence as it relates to most parents whose children attend them today. Public schools have a hard enough time in EDUCATING our children, without the added self-absorded mind-set of their parents. Many of these parents do not actually care about their child's education at all. In this, our society's most selfish hour, most of their concern is of their child's exterior appearance, as this directly reflects back to them, the parent. So, the more affluent the child is perceived externally, the better the parent feels. How can we know this? Simple, the cell phone. How can this be? Let's take a look. While in school the only concern, the only focus is educating said child, nothing else. Of course there are some ancillary concerns brought on by the stresses of society such as feeding and in some cases even clothing the child, yet educating the child is the schools chief priority. Now, as adults who have already graduated into adulthood a good parent should understand this. Then why are children allow by parents to bring Cell phones to school? Why would ANY sane parent give the okay for their child to bring an instrument to school that actually forces their mind and attention AWAY from the primary reason their are attending in school in the first place. This is monstrously selfish, to send a child with school books AND a cell phone. Which one is going to get the bulk of child's attention I wonder? I have yet to hear in my half-century of life a reason well placed enough to warrent a child's cell phone in SCHOOL. What is the real reason? The parent's selfish attempt to stay in the child's good graces, and to flaunt their flawed ability to care for their child. So the question on the floor is, what's your excuse for purposefully distracting your child in school?