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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And this is why we assigned work at home and then decided to send DS for enrichment. If the schools won't do it, we will. [/quote]

The unfortunate reality, and one that makes things less equitable but is the result of all of the equity cheerleaders’ decisions.[/quote]
It really is a great time to lean in on the enrichment. Kids will be light years ahead of their peers who relied solely on public education.[/quote]

It's like the best kept secret in public school world. Public school  + outside enrichment costs far, far less than a private school with slightly better academics, and you get the same results.[/quote]

[b]I mean, my parents did the same thing 50 years ago. This is not exactly new. Public schools are meant to provide a baseline of an education[/b]. Things improve in MS and HS when kids can choose Honors or AP/IB but ES is pretty baseline. Parents have been using enrichment to keep kids involved and tutoring to support struggling kids for ages. This is not a new phenominan across the MC and UMC communities. The education gap exists because lower income families either don't have a history of participating in education, ie the family has a long history of kids dropping out of school, or they don't have the money to provide enrichment or tutoring. [/quote]

My MC parents picked a good school when they bought their house, and my brothers and I (and my DH and his brothers) grew up in the Golden Age of public education, the late 70s and 80s, when phonics was taught, academic standards were rigorous, and when kids learned in public school.  No need for outside enrichment to get an excellent public education.

Education reform swept in and changed so much in public and private education.  Not for the better.  [/quote]

We went through school in the 1970's-1990's, so the same time period. My older siblings needed lots of enrichment, their top tier public schools could not meet their needs. My younger brother and I needed tutoring due to learning disabilities. My parents suplemented as needed. Most of the kids I know of who ended up at top universities participated in sort of enrichment. I am aware that plenty of folks did not and did just fine but I was familiar with different opportunities for my son because I saw what my parents did.

And the same holds for today. Plenty of kids at my sons school did zero enrichment and tutoring, their parents were fine with what the kids are getting from their FCPS school. We enrich in math because DS loves math and is really good at it. He has a good number of classmates who are in Algebra 1 H in 7th grade without any enrichment.

It really comes down to parent involvement and parents willingness to keep their kid on track.

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