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A child's education is first supported by their family, and then by the school.  A parent is child's first teacher.  Parent can break or make a child by being a bad role model, ignorant role model, or a good role model.  An uninformed and ignorant parent expects the school to pick up their parenting responsibility, when at school their child at best can practically get just 1/20th of the class teacher's attention, and could get 100% of parent's productive attention outside school.

On this forum, a responsible parent is foolishly referenced as a wealthy parent, and a hardworking student is depicted as a prepped student.  An ignorant parent eats up this narrative fast because it doesn't highlight their remiss in their parental duty, and conveniently blames the lack of progress in their child's education as a problem caused by school and other parents.  
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Why doesn't FCPS have the courage to address the lack of parental responsibility as the central issue here? While it might incur some political costs, ignoring the godzilla issue of lack of parental involvement and responsibility is not a viable long-term solution.

Has FCPS ever had parent training for successful child education? [/quote]

What does FCPS do about parents who don’t get their kids to school or to do their school work? You are mainly talking about poor families where the parents are working multiple jobs so they might not be in a place to make sure their kid goes to school. And parents who don’t have an education themselves so they probably can’t help with homework or understand what their kid is doing in school.

I know some schools send home books in K and First grade for parents to read to kids. They are Bob level books that are meant to try and help the parents with reading as well as the kids. I had a friend at a Title 1 school who showed me the books. They were saving them for their younger child when he was in preschool.

How do you get the parents who are working a ton to the school to teach them what they need to help their kids? Most of the low SES families don’t have a GED, never mind a high school diploma. There are services to help people earn their GED but those are not utilized.

It has nothing to do with intelligence. Families are not in that boat because they are dumb, they are there because there have been generations of families that did not value education and that is passed on to their kids. How hard do you think it is for a kid whose parents don’t read, don’t have a degree, and don’t have an interest in school to take their own schooling seriously? Who do they turn to for help when they need it and they are not at school?

Families who are coming from countries were the government has broken down and schools are non-existent have no chance to start getting an education in their country. Their kids had no chance to get an education in their home country. They come to the US and the parents need to find jobs. If they are here illegally, then they are going to be careful about asking for help because they don’t want to be deported. They are working jobs that probably pay under a working wage because they employer can get away with that. Their kids might attend school. If they do they are placed in a class based on their age. Placing a non-English speaking kid who has probably been traumatized in their home country into an English speaking classroom with kids who have at least been in school since K and some who have parents who are supplementing at home is not going to meet their needs.

It has nothing to do with intelligence, it has everything to do with circumstances that the kids and the schools have no control over. We are asking schools to find a way to solve long standing societal issues, which is ridiculous. [/quote]

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