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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think we can blame parents. It’s not fair to expect parents to spend an hour a day tutoring what should be taught in the 7 hours they’re in school daily.

I blame edtech. Get rid of the laptops and force reading from paper books and textbooks. It’s not the same to read on a screen.  [/quote]

Parents who rely totally on the school to teach everything are definitely to blame.  But yes, there should be a return to books and textbooks.[/quote]

I’m sorry but this is a horrible attitude. The schools should be responsible for teaching! That’s not a controversial opinion! It worked well for many decades. Kids learned to read, write, do math, they learned facts, and did science experiments, etc. We need only look at the education statistics in past censuses here: https://educationdata.org/education-attainment-statistics

1950 census: children in school were silent generation. Only 34% of adults had a HS diploma. 
1960 census: children in school were baby boomers. 41% of adults had a HS diploma. 
1970 census: children in school were the youngest baby boomers and oldest Gen X. 55% of adults had a HS diploma. (Baby boomers were driving a lot of the increase in HS graduation rates and they generally did not have school age children by 1970).
1980 census: children in school were Gen X. 68% of adults had a HS diploma.

The point is we don’t get to relatively high levels of educational attainment in the US until 1980! Do you really think non-HS graduate mom and dad were extensively working with their kids in 1950 to teach them to read? No, because that was the school’s job. The best you were going to get was parents reading simple picture books to their young kids and not every household even had that.

This is to say nothing of the pre-1950s years in educational attainment. Kids in public school often had illiterate parents or parents who could read at a basic level, or immigrant parents still learning English. But they still learned to read in school because the schools actually taught it. [/quote]

Such a massive chunk of words to excuse yourself from being a garbage parent. Should’ve used precaution instead of impregnation. What a failure. [/quote]

DP.  Nope.  Kids are at school 7 hrs every day.  Even if the parents do zero supplementing, [b]that is more than ample time to make majority of kids meet  grade level proficiency for math and reading-[/b] and that is far from happening.  [/quote]

Come in and work with the kids I work with. Kids who don't speak English (and probably don't speak Spanish anywhere near their age), kids with low IQs, kids who miss 30, 40, 50+ days of school every year, kids who have never seen a book until they start school (they often hold them upside down at first), kids who are screen addicts because that's all they do in the cheap daycare they go to for years and years. Kids whose teeth are rotting out of their mouths, kids whose parents see them for an hour or two a day, kids who move around a lot because they are evicted, kids whose parents are deported and they are sent to live with relatives they might not even know.  I could go on. [/quote]

This is the entire premise for public education.  Regardless of a child’s parents and upbringing, the public education, that has kids 7 hrs a days since kindergarten, should be able to develop them to reading proficiency and basic math by 3rd grade.  Public education is literally meant for kids whose parents don’t have the ability to educate them. The statistics are so bad, you cannot blame parents, sorry. [/quote]

These kids could make grade level standards 40 yrs ago but the expectations are much higher. You cannot teach kids who aren’t in school. Kids with cognitive impairments (low IQ) are also unlikely to keep up with standards. Smart ESOL kids can do it but our ESOL kids typically have attendance issues. Many don’t have proficiency in their own language. [/quote]

But this isn’t most kids.  And most kids are not proficient…only 30-40% of kids are at grade level proficiency.  That is even lower in some states, meaning upwards of 70% of kids are below grade level- this is public education problem, not an attendance problem[/quote]

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