it's a lack of parents who have good parenting skills
Let's not forget the unfortunate trend of people who don't want to do the parenting job themselves, but expect someone else (the schools, govt., etc.) to do it for them. "I'm much too busy with my job to be a parent, let's just make a new law!" This WAVE thing is just the same idea in a different guise -- instead of involving ourselves with our kids, let's appoint an outside entity to get involved and find out what our kids are up to.
I've still got a working Sinclair ZX-81 with 2K of RAM -- also had the 16K RAM expansion pack. 'Course now I guess I've dated myself....
Let's not forget the unfortunate trend of people who don't want to do the parenting job themselves, but expect someone else (the schools, govt., etc.) to do it for them. "I'm much too busy with my job to be a parent, let's just make a new law!" This WAVE thing is just the same idea in a different guise -- instead of involving ourselves with our kids, let's appoint an outside entity to get involved and find out what our kids are up to.