Ideas for improving the United States education system

Rapidly declining moral standards are partly to blame for the breakdown in our education system. Not just with the students but with the parents and teachers as well. Because we are the melting pot of the world we have more and more of an influx of different nationalities coming into our country. The language barrier grows wider and wider as the new people come in but, the real issue is not the communication obstacle, it is our lack of family morals, values and ethics.
Let's start with the family and create higher moral standards. Families with strong values create ambitious, creative, career minded students. Peaceful homes give children clear minds to think with. How can a child concentrate in school after dad just cursed out mom because the laundry wasn't done?
Kids are too angry these days and parents are at fault. It isn't about a certain religion, race, creed, color or nationality it is about a lack of careful, concerned, considerate, compassionate and caring parents. It starts in the home.
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We can't blame it on the outsiders anymore. Our country is the one known for freedom of speech, free will, and fight for what you think is right regardless of how it affects your neighbor. We rid of prayer in the schools because Bill doesn't believe in Jesus. We get rid of the pledge of allegiance because Alice doesn't believe in God. We take out the Ten Commandments and the crosses because Harold is offended. Yet if you go to Japan or other countries they don't tolerate this kind of division.
It seems other countries put their foot down to intruders. They keep the children focused on education, ethics and values and they force those who oppose to stay out of the way. They have a government people might not agree with but they show respect towards. Here we have politicians openly slandering our president on television. Children are not shown respect for elders or how to get along.
They watch adults fight, argue, and strive to disagree. We are their role models yet we fail to model anything desirable. We want our children to go to school and get good jobs yet we are lazy. Americans want top dollar for working less hours. We want to find the get rich quick scheme that will afford us a life of luxury and early retirement. Kids need to see us acting like dynamic members of society if they are ever going to become productive citizens themselves.
Children are like sponges. They soak up knowledge in the first six years of life faster than any year after that. It is important to teach them when they are young how to properly behave when they are older. We've all heard the proverb, train up a child in the way he should go and when he us old he will not depart from it, but we are training them in all the wrong information.
They see us drink, smoke, divorce, steal, covet, argue and boast about how great we are. Children need to see humility and love. They need us to teach values and morals, good work ethics and how to treat our neighbors as ourselves. It is amusing to see all the wasted time children spend trying to get better from their childhood almost as if they are healing from an epidemic. Why can't we spare them countless years of therapy by being the responsible people we should be now while they depend on us.