Oh, I agree whole-heartedly that kids can make the right choices based on strong parenting, and even more importantly based on a strong internal sense of right and wrong, the problem is that parents don't establish those strong values and then when the kids get to school they are not given any consequences for misbehavior either. We just found it amusing that no parent ever identified their chid as being the cause of their own misbehavior. When you or I misbehaved as children we were held accountable and punished (not beaten), once at school once at home, now not only is there no consequence at home, a parent will deflect blame on to anyone else (but the child or themself) this teaches kids to act in all the worst ways as long as it gratifies them, and these are the kids your well parented kids must co-exist and later compete with. Your kid takes the test and gets a B through effort, their kid cheats, gets caught but because of our weak system, gets a do over and gets a B. Some justice. And belief in the argument that cheaters never win ignores our recent political history.

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