In response to a Middle Twp. spouter: Students do need to be held accountable and so do parents. We're in this educational mess because we have too many parents who raise their children with no sense of personal responsibility. Students regularly text in class, despite repeated warnings, come to class without their homework, and back talk the teacher. Parents of these same students are the first ones to make excuses for the child and try to bully the teacher into giving him/her an A.