Uhgehnst Skewel

In his writing, Mr Gatto has put his trust in American parents to raise their children out of childhood faster than "the man", aka the public schools of America, want the children to. However, in making this point, Mr Gatto has missed one important fact. One of the biggest flaws of public schooling is not the schools themselves, but the parents of the children that attend the schools. There are a plethora of parents in the United States that are very poor parents. They don't care about their child's schooling. They don't care about advancing the child academically or emotionally in any way. In general they just don't care. If the mandatory chunk of the weekday set out for "school" for these children was taken away, where would THEIR development and education come from? Who would be there to make the children "grow up", like Mr Gatto repeatedly says the school system fails to do. I am not questioning the fact that there are flaws in the current school system, but what other options do we really have at this point?