Reply #25: We need to start fighting this general culture

[nadinbrzezinski]

try to read in a public space

Seat down with your kids to do homework

Have books at home... and I mean the classics, not just Harry Potter, and read them with your kids...

Do things together... and yes your kids will fight you

Go to the PTA....

Defend those in education

And do demand (and be willing to pay for) good education

It will take all of us consciously changing how we do business. That includes turning off the tube when the kids are at home, and the play station...

And I will commit heresy, but we, as a society, need to insist that spelling meets are more valuable than Friday Night Football

Chiefly this may not work, since we are fighting the culture, but we need to try