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We're talking about children here! They are unable or unwilling or simply won't do what they don't want to do unless parents make them. We can't expect the school system to be mother and father to students, as is the trend. Parents must be responsible for teaching their children right from wrong.

Unfortunately, the one thing that really motivates people is money, or the threat of the loss of money. I know that life is much more complicated than to simply say, "Control your children and make them go to school." Parents are distracted by the basics of survival in this brutal world of wage slavery and worker exploitation. But at what point are parents absolved from responsibility for their childrens' behavior?

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