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[quote=Anonymous]You can't. It can't all be solved during the six hours a day in a school, no matter how fantastic the school is.

You can't make up for high stressed parents with low paying jobs whose car breaks down and they lose their job.

You can't make up for sick parents who can't be engaged with their kids enough to help with homework.

You can't make up for kids whose parents never finished high school, or have undiagnosed learning disabilities that impede their ability to help their kids through school.

You can't make up for homeless families.

You can't make up for abusive households.

You can't make up for drug addicted or untreated mentally ill parents.

You can't make up for parents whose command of English isn't good enough to help with school work.

You can't make up for parents who work two and three jobs and can't focus on dealing with learning difficulties or behavioral issues.

You can't make up for families that can't put food on the table on a regular basis.

Faced with all of this, I think MoCo does a pretty good job. They give many kids two meals a day, for example. Probably the most regular (even only) food many kids get.  But you won't have lower SES schools pushing out scores comparable to high SES schools.

To fix schools, you have to significantly reduce social ills, like most aspects of poverty.   [/quote]

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