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Dear Abby

Wouldn’t it make sense if grade school teachers set aside time, weekly or monthly, to go over some generic information kids need to learn?

Some disagree with whose job it is – school teachers’?

Most agree that the responsibility is the parents’.

A Chaplin, CT, wrote to “Dear Abby” in a recent column:

“I’m talking about things like how important it is to have pets neutered and why.

“Also, how to manage money, what the average dad earns and what it costs to run a household and support a family.

“It might help kids to grow up understanding that money isn’t free to get them past the ‘gimmes.’

“There are so many topics that should be introduced to youngsters at an early age – how to groom themselves properly, a variety of music genres, how grandparents can use help even from small children.

“They could be taught to be aware of their surroundings, to realize foul language isn’t an attribute and why it’s important to be pleasant.

“There are so many topics. Ten minutes a week would suffice. Why not?”

Abby responded: “Dear Reader: Why not? Because teachers are so overwhelmed trying to get their students to learn enough basic curriculum to pass the state mandated tests that they don’t have time.

“Reading your letter I couldn’t help but wonder whose children you are describing. All of the topics you mentioned are things children should learn from their parents. Where are those parents?”

Footnote: If there is a saving grace to the economic slowdown, it would be for parents to face the fact that overspending, chasing the Jones and buying a home beyond their means puts them back into the household and raising their children just like their parents and grandparents did before.

And one more thing: parents should instill good manners, which reflect directly on them.

This basic need does not have an economic or social setting but does reflect on parenting. Somehow parents have gotten away from the notion that it is their job to provide the fundamental of good citizenship and a sense of basic information to their children. Where did America go wrong?

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