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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It has been proven time and time and time again that the achievement gap is tied to income and parental involvement. There is no substitute for those things, no matter how hard to the government tries. They will just continue to flush money down the toilet. [/quote]

So your approach is to give up and not try to address disparities?   :shock: [/quote]

How are you supposed to address lack of parental involvement? You can’t make parents care. [/quote]

You are correct. You can't make parents "care", but you can provide a carrot and stick approach to parenting. It would require something as simple as conditioning any federal assistance that a person or family receives who has a child under 18 to undergo a mandatory course (and completion) on parenting. What the course constitutes could be developed, but it would likely include learning about character, respect, accountability, whole-child development, communication skills, and social emotional learning. After course completion, there would be a cycle of regular check ups (maybe annually) with a social worker (or something similar). The school that the child attends would also be included in reporting out progress on the student. Failure to meet certain requirements would result in loss of all federal assistance. Programs that would qualify could include CHIP, Medicaid, TANF, free and reduced price lunch, etc.

The point is to discuss solutions to problems not to keep complaining and give up because you think there is no way to fix something. [/quote]

There is a vast swath of parents who don’t care and don’t qualify for any of these programs.  Some of the most sociopathic, disrespectful, and terminally dumb bullies come from wealthy parents.  This just seems like a nanny-state way of singling out and punishing lower-income parents.[/quote]

And punishing the children of lower income parents.

I assume this is a feature for the wealthiest Republicans,.so their kids can go full pay and get a much easier acceptance for these professional degrees while poor kids have to struggle along with just their bachelors, if they are even able to get that.

Thing is, not many rich kids want to be social workers.[/quote]

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