Jobs are hard to come by.  It will be harder when your children grow up.  Unless you want your children to become a part of the non-working, or barely making it class, you are going to have to take things away.  Take the cell phones for those children under 15 (or poor grades), away!  Take the electronic devices, the games, the tablets, or anything else that really isn’t helping with getting higher grades, away!  Put them on curfews, make them sit at the table at meal times! Take the cable TVs out of their rooms.  Put the fear of God into them (show them people living on the streets and eating out of trash cans.)