Tony Dungy Is Right: Troubled Kids Don’t Just Need Better Schools — They Need Fathers

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Tony Dungy Is Right: Troubled Kids Don’t Just Need Better Schools — They Need Fathers

The children we are attempting to educate are an extension of their original educational environment: their families.

BY: ADAM B. COLEMAN
APRIL 15, 2022

When Tony Dungy noted on Monday that the reason so many young boys end up in trouble is “not socioeconomic. It’s not racial. It’s not education,” but because “95 percent of these boys did not grow up with their dad,” leftists were quick to label the former NFL coach a “fascist political prop” for his argument in defense of fatherhood. But I know from personal experience the challenges caused by a neglectful father, and Dungy is right that addressing the decline of invested fathers is key to resolving a myriad of social ills.

The way we discuss education in America is generally from two narrow perspectives: educational access and institutional funding. The people incessantly pushing educational access believe any child can succeed if you put him in the right institution. The people who love counting the per-pupil spending of a given school district equate monetary spending to educational success.

Neither perspective is wrong, but the problem is that they are narrow, and we need to view education through a broader lens that doesn’t just involve the government, teachers, and choice of educational institutions. Children are an extension of their original educational environment: their families.

The Biggest Culprit Is Broken Families

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It’s Not Empowering for Women to Raise Kids Without their Father
We avoid talking about broken families because you can’t legislate a happy home and the government can’t welfare its way into a healthy environment for children. Even my stating that a single-parent home is a broken home could be viewed as controversial by some because we’ve convinced ourselves that this new-age method of raising children provides only negligible downsides. We spend so much time wanting to empower single mothers that we ignore how it disadvantages their children.

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Good Schooling Is No Replacement for Good Parenting
The uncomfortable truth is that poor family planning leads to poor home environments, economically and educationally. A poor home environment is not conducive to encouraging the proper attributes to excel in education, and it puts more pressure on the educators to make up for the deficiencies of the child’s home environment.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/15/tony-dungy-is-right-troubled-kids-dont-just-need-better-schools-they-need-fathers/

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From the article:
'When Tony Dungy noted on Monday that the reason so many young boys end up in trouble is “not socioeconomic. It’s not racial. It’s not education,” but because “95 percent of these boys did not grow up with their dad,”'

No.
It's racial.

For something like 80-85% (or more) of blacks, the concept of "nuclear family" composed of father, mother and kids no longer exists -- and hasn't existed for a few generations now.

That concept isn't coming back, either.
The continuing, progressive "devolution" of black culture will preclude that.
And any attempts to coerce blacks toward re-establishment of "traditional" families will be labeled as "racis'" and trying to force blacks to "act white".

White, western civilization cannot solve this problem in any way that will be acceptable to either blacks or most whites. That's not to say it couldn't BE solved. Rather, the methods would be decried as fascistic and totalitarian.

It is what it is, and about all we can do to protect ourselves at this point is to isolate ourselves from it (and from blacks), and let it "burn itself out".