woman said. the thing is, we have a lot of parents who couldn t get a flip. we can t get them on the phone, they don t show up to any parent-teacher meetings. we have to find some way to motivate those parents to say, wait a second, maybe it s important if i talk to the teacher once a year at least tow see how my son or daughter is doing. jaime: dr. roberts should this be a model then for other states to consider? i think he needs to dig a little deeper. if he s targeting the parents that don t give a flip, let that be the target population, and let s go in there and if we have to go to their homes and get these parents. this is what we had to do in chicago. we want to make shog wor something work we go to the home, we find the parents. nothing stops us from our objective of getting them even tkpwaeupld. engaged. let s talk to targeted parents that don t give a flip. let s ask them what is it going to take for them to give a flip. at the end when it all fails let s talk about taking
do you think parents can really take on that responsibility of making sure their kids do better in school? are they equipped? listen, we are not talking dark dash i m not expecting these kids to write the magna cart tafplt abc s, 1, 2, 3 s, i think every parent can just about do that. we have class force parents. we have after school problems if kids are having problems. we have tutoring problems, we have everything you d ever ask for except for parents that are engaged and involved. if a parent doesn t care if a child shows up for school, if they show up they don t care if they are asleep during the school day, as long as they are getting their check, i mean we have to motivate these parents. the only way to break the generational cycle of poverty is education, that is the golden ticket out of poverty. and some people just renews to have any responsibility. we keep trying to put it all on our schools or put it all on our teachers. we can t do that. jaime: let me let dr. roberts in w
they have released a statement it says, it is unfortunate that this important and much needed community dialogue regarding gun control currently underway in the city of burlington and across the nation has resulted in this action. the burlington council s proposal to ban these certain types of weapons is far from being actually implemented. first we have to go to a city-wide vote which would occur in 2014, then the measure would have to be aeu pr-fd by th to be approved by the vermont state legislature. if it becomes law there is the added likelihood that it could face a constitutional challenge from gun rights advocates. jon: thanks, mol leave. jaime: there is a new plan in tennessee that affects family welfare parents and ties them to the children of those recipients performance in school. you get lower grades you get lower payments. joining us is the sponsor of the bill republican state senator stacey campfield and doctor joh ann roberts a school superintendent in illinois and