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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People call a school district "good" when it has good test scores and all the kids speak English. But in these kinds of districts the parents tend to provide all the acceleration, enrichment, and other supplements that make kids score well on exams. The teachers range from sh** to great but none of them have as much influence over academic achievement as the parents do. I would even go so far as to say that teachers in "good" districts get lazy and complacent because they know the kids get academic instruction outside of school.[/quote]

I mostly agree with the above.

W pyramids are good because of all the outside school supplements - at home, at a tutoring center, with a tutor or whatever.

Outside supplementing also is a large part of iwhy HHI correlates with educational attainment. [/quote]

So does school even matter then? I should just supplement outside of school and assume school is for socialization? What kind of socialization is another question, I guess.  But supplementing everything doesn't seem to leave a lot of time for DD's interests.[/quote]

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