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[quote=Anonymous][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]

“Education reform” meant: trashing phonics, implementing disastrous reading methods such as whole language, and the notorious “common core,” which the authors of have admitted they created to “diminish white privilege.”

The latest attach on American public education is a wolf in sheep’s clothing: the innocent-sounding “ diversity, inclusion, and equity.”

Except, “equity” brands homework as “racist because the results are racially inequitable.”

So-called “equity grading” sounds nice, but it means restricting top grades for capable students, while simultaneously eliminating the “F” (no matter how poor the performance, or no performance), and elevating those grades to Ds.[/quote]

This has gotten so out of control, I can only conclude:

- I am opposed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as they are currently implemented in the USA.[/quote]

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