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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many parents think the parenting is providing the basics. [b]School will take care of the education. [/b]So it's really a gap in expectations. If you expect 100% of your child's education to be taken care of by their school, there is most likely going to be a gap forever. When we meet with parents in kindergarten at my Title 1 school, many of them are surprised and even shocked that their child is below grade level. "How can they be below grade level when they just started school?" They think that school will teach them all that they need to know.[/quote]

That is what my parents thought in the 1970s, and so did almost everyone else's parents, in a public school system in a university town in the Midwest. Most of us went on to advanced degrees and professional careers.[/quote]
We live in different times due to global competition.  I wish folks would stop comparing the US now to the "good old days".  I grew up in the 70's./80's. A lot of the students that went on to top colleges back then probably wouldn't get in today.

[b]Back then, rote learning was the thing[/b]. Terrible way to teach. Back then, we had more factory jobs, and people could live a comfortable middle class life with such jobs. Not so much anymore in many places in this country.

STEM wasn't as a big a deal back then as it is today.

Please step out of the 70's time warp.[/quote]

I'm guessing that you don't remember a lot of the educational fads in the 70s like: open classrooms, "new math" and whole language.  Umm, no, not all of us were doing rote memorization.  But memorizing information as a small child never hurt anyone.  How do you think our country led the tech revolution if all of us were idiots?[/quote]
 :roll:   A select few people were involved in the tech revolution, some who were educated outside this country.   We were not all involved in this.

Look at the tech industry now. Do you honestly think 70's education would fit the needs of the industry now?  I work in the tech industry btw.

Rote learning for something is fine, bu we are not talking about just early ES education.  Rote  learning was also how they taught math in the upper grades back then. Whatever fad there was it wasn't pervasive.[/quote]

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