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Public school cannot fix absent or uneducated parenting, OP. That is the main hurdle.

If you're going to pick ONE single act that will impact every child for the better, that would be smaller classroom sizes, so that every child receives more individual feedback from their teacher. Right now, at any grade level, you need to be pretty functional to follow instruction, just because the teacher cannot spend enough time with each student. Students fall through the cracks, especially if their parents don't know how to work the system, request 504s or IEPs, etc.

Of course, I know it's not one act. A lot of schools are overcrowded. It means building more schools, which is always a huge problem in MoCo. It means billions in expenditure that the County tells us we don't have.

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Agree. But as original question asks, how do you "fix" "uneducated" parenting? How does the community help those parents, make a change so it helps the current students which could help next gen too.[/quote]

PP you replied to. You don't. You can't. Not in that moment in time. What you do today fixes the next generation. Generational education is a very long-term, selfless exercise that requires higher-order thinking skills, because you cannot receive feedback in real time, and demands a certain vision of the future from the deciding classes.

You just hope that you're doing sufficient work on the next generation, and you vote for politicians that prioritize public education and education, scientific reasoning and Culture with a Capital C.

So... NOT robbing public school budgets to pay for vouchers, or banning books, or claiming that the government can control the weather, or that human-driven climate change doesn't exist. FOR A START.

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