Sorry my friend, but I've BEEN in the schools these days including sitting in the classroom, and they are VERY different from what they used to be. And it is the products of those same schools that are today's parents.
So yes, today's schools may reflect the values of their community as they did when I was in school. But it is very different values being reflected now than was the case when I was in school. If we could put conservatives back in charge of the schools for a generation of school children, we would all be infinitely better off than we are now and I believe children would again be getting a first class education in the public schools.
That won't happen unless we get the federal government and teacher's union out of the schools entirely.
yeah, parents have nothing to do with it...
Now I didn't say that did I.
But ask yourself why parents are so different now than they were then.
I did.
More work, and more are divorced.