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In reply to the discussion: Akin: We've Got A Commie President [View all]patrice
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here.
I am a conservative Liberal in some aspects and one dimension of that part of me is how I view families. There is no substitute for authentic family and, whether it's blood or some other foundation, that authenticity comes from the extent to which a given relationship is familial, i.e. can be trusted, can be vulnerable, in challenges from BOTH/all participants. My guess is, on the average, many parents, being products of the same dysfunctionalities themselves, cannot deal with their children and the real challenges that the young pose to everything about the "establishment" with which "adults" identify.
Voice of experience here.
This is why teachers should be valued as so so so very much more than cogs in the mechanized "education" machine. Even if they are not the actual familial mentor, when it comes to LEARNING, and the extent to which "education" is an essential factor in learning, teachers are the last step, for a significant cohort, before 0.