It's not okay to yell at the kids for doing poorly academically either.

Frankly, I'd put a pause on automatically yelling at my kid for misbehaving in school too. Hard truth here, school discipline is atrocious and that's not all on the kids or the parents.

School gets marketed to kids as a fun camp and play palace rather than a training camp for adulthood and their childhood "job".

Is anyone really surprised that they then treat school as the former and not the later?

That's not all on parents. Parents also aren't exempt from accountability.

But as a parent, I can tell you there's only so much I can do. In the end, it doesn't matter how much I push to my kid with, "school is for learning, not playing. Everybody has a job, school is yours; don't slack. I expect you to take advantage of the opportunity to be educated; not everyone gets that opportunity. A good education will do more to get you ahead in life than anything. Etc" when the minute they get on the bus or walk through the front door it's all about fun and games and the teachers are promoting, "school is so much fun. We're gonna have sooo much FUN! I'm your best friend because I love kids. Aren't you having Fuuuun?"

And answers get spoonfed for testing so the school doesn't lose funding. Might as well stick with a bell and a pizza roll, there's very little actual learning any more.

And everything they see on any kind of media about school is about everything else and around actual learning. It's all about drama.

So exactly how is what happens at school on parents entirely?

And don't even get me startrs on gangs and drugs and poverty.