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Originally posted by ladysycamore
...When parents kept track of your progress at school, and went to pratically every PTA meeting (and you had to go with them!). Basically...when parents were parents.
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This is the key, and as alluded to by others, this is not a racial problem...it is a universal problem. The black community may be manifesting some of the more objectionable outward signs of lack of involvement from the older generations, at least to the casual observer, but parenting is rapidly becoming a lost art...period.
We work hard at it, and we *still* have mondo problems at my house, so it is no easy task. However, my kids are smart, very polite to adults, and quite loving, so we must have done something right along the way.