Idiot blew his leg off

[brewer]

but the most important teachers any child has are mom and dad.

And how many kids have a "mom AND dad" these days? 

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...al-family/

Fewer than half of U.S. kids today live in a ‘traditional’ family

And even if they do you run into this phenomenon. 

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/famee.pdf

The share of married -couple families with children where both parents worked was 60.2 percent.

So if teachers are waiting for parents to pick up the slack they have a long wait because the 1960s are not coming back.

Both of my parents worked, but they were also involved. It does not take two parents to be involved, one will do. I made it through grad school in the top 5 percent.

It's not a matter of picking up the slack but a matter of parental mind set. If the parents don't give a shit then neither will the kids. My parents didn't do my homework but they made sure it was done. My parents didn't teach me music but they made sure I practiced. Sometimes I was encouraged through nurturing, sometimes through threat, both had a positive outcome. I was never encouraged by "I don't care, it's the teachers job not mine".