It is no wonder we feel disconnected from the politicians in Washington. It's as if someone locked us in the attic and said "don't come down til college". Politicians are trying to loosen up the over crammed school rooms and lack of education in bad neighborhoods. The Republicans call for vouchers and the Democrats call for charter schools, where as everyone else is looking for national standards in schools. Bagby makes these points look ridiculous, showing that while everyone who is voting for these different rulings are not the ones being affected by these long debates and arguments. Their children are.
Although many people can and do get through high school, a high school diploma does not do what it use to for a person. To get any job starting above minimum wage, young adults must have a college degree and previous experience. Having a bachelor's degree allows people to get into the work force and move up in the economic world. Without one, multiple minimum wage jobs are the norm and economic mobility is impossible. This case refers to thousands of .
dead-end jobs. This is where our middle class has gone, the ones that can move up, have and the .
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ones stuck at the bottom are just that, stuck. Many parents of low income households make minimum wage, thus in order to support their families they have to take on multiple jobs. This means working fifteen hour days, spending less time raising their children, and paying off baby-sitters and not knowing what is happening to your kids. Over the past fifty years, women .
have become more job oriented and can not stay home to raise a family because its too hard for a family to have one sole breadwinner working a 9 to 5 job. Thus, without parents in the house, raising the children, teaching them morals and how to behave, these children will naturally become misbehaving adolescents. Bagby says in her book, "While most parents feel they have a responsibility to control what their kids watch, they also say they simply do not have the time to monitor their kids 24 hours a day.