Whatever happened to doing your job?

Y'all should know about the issue of Stephen and his grades last year. A GPA of .5 for his freshman year in high school. Yes that was POINT FIVE. So he needed to go to summer school. We were unable to get him enrolled in a brick and mortar class so he was supposed to do it online. The operative word there is supposed. Another class, another failure. What has me irked here is that he had a teacher who was supposed to monitor his progress because he had to actually go in and do the testing for his class was a good civil servant. (Why do I picture her sitting primly with her hands folder in her lap?) We received no notification of him failing. From him or his teacher. Do they get rated on the grade average of their students? His teacher not only did not tell us he was failing she did not respond to the emailed questions we had. My idea is to go to the next school board meeting but Stacie is curbing me until we talk to the principal at the school who is on vacation till the first. I will be in on that meeting and I will probably not be liked afterwards.
My question is about what we are now teaching our people today. Our politicians cannot do their jobs but nothing happens to them. Our teachers will not do their jobs and nothing happens to them. Our police can't or won't do their jobs and crime goes rampant yet nothing happens to them unless they pose in Playboy. It snowballs down hill from there. What happens to society when garbage men won't do their jobs? Oh wait didn't that happen when the garbage men went on strike in Sacramento County back in September 2006? Again nothing happened to them.
What happened to a work ethic here in the United States? Has it become a WORTHLESS ETHIC? This is what I see that we are teaching our kids. And we wonder why we went from the fifth largest economy in the world to a fraud of a state as far as the economy goes. Maybe we can start changing the way we train our kids before we collapse as a nation or a species for that matter. I'm afraid it's too late for California. Can you say tipping point?

Ottar
Stirrrer of the Defecation