Today’s Trent TV adventure wonders out loud whether schools and parents are on the right track with students in 2012. What may start out as a good idea can often morph into a monstrosity that can no longer be contained, reversed, or reduced. Who would have thought anything could go so wrong with schools?
“Generally, most people who run schools have good intentions and the heart to do good,” Trent Ling suggests. “But, very few people ever get up in the helicopter to get an aerial view of things. That view shows the forest to be on fire, and it renders any good ground reports unsustainable in this modern world. There remain certain matters, laws, and precepts upon which God is not about to yield. Trillions of dollars and generations of failure later, apparently this can only be learned the hard way.”
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Speaking of sin covering sin. So easy to justify “being busy” and take the easy route of giving away full responsibilities as parents. Being occupied with work, I can see for myself how tempting that is, but it’s back to who we want as our Master. Thank you for the warning, Om Trent!
I can’t understand how parents can disengage themselves from their children’s lives. The parent’s involvement is crucial in a child’s development. If they can’t trust their parents being there for them in their development years, who can a child trust. If you don’t know what your child is learning how can you know what they are lacking? Thank you Trent for all you teach/preach that others may learn.
Throughout my 14 years of teaching it has been incredibly sad to see how parents have drastically disengaged from their responsibility of their child’s education and overall well-being. In my last few years in the brick-and-mortar school, I remember that I had only 4 parents out of 130 students come to visit me at an open houses or parent/teacher conferences. It would also break my heart to hear a student say that the breakfast and lunch at school was their sturdiest meals of the day because mom/dad where not around in the evening. Furthermore I had students and parents flat-out say that kids were attending school regularly, because if not, they would not lose their food stamps.
I agree with Trent. The “system” has fatidically trained parents to be this way. Detaching parents from their responsibility with “programs and aids” has created an unsustainable co-dependency that will in turn be inherited by the next generation.