Education is a Father’s Responsibility
There is no one else to blame.
It is your responsibility to educate your children. You may delegate some of the tasks of their education. You may hire tutors and teachers, or send them to a private school. You may even send them to government schools (though I wouldn’t recommend it).
But you may not abdicate your responsibility to educate them.
When all is said and done, and things have not been done to your satisfaction, you have exactly one person to blame: yourself.
It feels nice when you can blame someone else. Cast your guilt onto the teachers, point fingers at the school environment, shake your head in disappointment at the chosen curriculum, and throw medication at a boy who is misbehaving.
All of that excuse-making is easy.
All of it is an effort to absolve yourself of your own failings.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4
If your child is falling behind, do something about it.
If something is not up to your standards, do something about it.
If you want them to learn something specific, do something about it.
This doesn’t mean you have to personally teach them everything (though you should be formally teaching them something). It just means you are the captain of the ship, and you will answer for where that ship goes and how it was maintained. There are a lot of jobs that you don’t personally do, but it is your job to see that they all get done adequately.
Do not neglect this responsibility. Do not abdicate.
During the COVID lockdowns, how many people complained about schools not meeting? Or about how math is taught? Or about progressive agendas in new textbooks?
Stop complaining.
Do something about it.
You are their father. You are not an impotent worm, subject to the whims of the universe. Your children don’t have to be subject to a subpar education.