Modest Proposal : ‘Pay Parents to Be Teachers’ Aides’

What do you think of an idea that would bring the family together, help prevent juvenile delinquency and crime, improve education, eliminate a good portion of welfare and help the economy by providing new jobs?

It’s very simple. Pay one parent to become active in our educational system by becoming a teacher’s aide and becoming responsible for his or her child’s homework.

Family life has been destroyed because both parents have to work. Parental guidance disappears when the parents are working and are too tired to do much with their children when they get home after a day of hard work. Lack of parental supervision causes some children to join gangs and is one of the main reasons for the increase in violence and crime.

One of the basic needs of education is homework. Without any supervision there usually is no homework. Paying one parent to become a teacher’s aide will help the family financially, which could eliminate the need for welfare in some cases. It would be more like “workfare.” This income could help the family get out of poverty. It would also create new jobs.

One may ask, where are you going to get the money? From the federal government through our taxes. Can we afford to put a price on family welfare? We must realize that the cost of crime and how any crime prevention method, in the long run, saves money. It is time that we realize that we have to think of others first.