While I also think our education system is broken, I think parents share a lot of the blame. Read to your kids and get em off the damn video games. Oh yeah how bout making em eat a carrot or an apple instead of that pack of Ho Hos. Encourage physical activity. Our kids are turning into a bunch of lazy lardasses. No disrespect to lardasses.
Kids today are soft period. Fat, skinny, male or female. They are all especially mentally soft. I have no kids, but all the people I've come across, including those close to me, have soft kids. It drives me f'n nutz to watch as the years go by and problems develope and become noticed. I want to say "WTF have you been thinking as you raised them for the last 10/15 years? You reap what you sow. This is all on you!" But, then again, I don't have any kids and I know one thing for sure, NOBODY wants to hear ANYTHING about THEIR kids. Video games and crappy prepped food are the real killers followed closely by the idiot box. No chores, no lawns to cut, no snow to shovel, no dinner to make, no pet to take care of. "Not for my kid". Or the famous one I hear, "At least they aren't into drugs or in any trouble." Like to hear their thoughts when they got a 45 year stinky low employed fat ass living in the basement when they are in their 60's.
Two friends of mine have kids that are big time over weight. Absolutely disgust me to see a kid I've known from birth 60/70 lbs overweight and not even out of high school.
I really don't know what parents are thinking about these days. Went and saw that new movie Wally with gf and daughter. All I could think about was kids of people I know.