Clark said parents and communities need to value learning more, perhaps by requiring students to pass standardized tests in order graduate. I think kids are pushed through school without meeting standards that are necessary to make it in the real world. Social and family issues concerned 19 percent of coastal residents polled. Louise Martin worries about the future of families when so many children are shuttled to large day-care centers or left home alone. Wayne Brown, who coaches various children's teams, believes children crave attention from their parents, and when they don't get it, they turn to drugs to fill the void.
Some parents just drop the kids off at the field and go shopping.
I know people are busy. But parents need to be a lot more concerned and spend more time with their kids. Cleveland Page is concerned about the greed he sees among young people today. Page recalled the story of the dog with the bone who spies his reflection in a pond. The bone in the reflection looks bigger than his own, so the dog drops his bone to grab the other, leaving him with nothing.