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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not all students are capable of high achievement.  
There. I said it.[/quote]

And not all kids have parents that will do the work to push them to what ever their full capabilities are. Rich schools simply have more parents who push and facilitate their kids at a higher level. Expecting the schools to pick up the slack is unrealistic. Schools are a piece not the solution and if we are being honest not really as important as many people make them out to be, its one path of many.  [/quote]

Close but one point is backwards here. Rick schools don’t happen to have parents  who push their kids. It’s the other way around. Parents who push their kids end up with rich kids who end up doing well financially and then move to rich areas. But they have to keep going- push the next generation. There’s no free lunch so to speak.

I’m rich (self-made) and every day after work, even though I’m tired, while I cook dinner, kid is at kitchen table doing homework and I keep track, make sure they complete everything and make sure they have a good understanding. I spend time EVERY evening teaching them stuff, sitting with them, quizzing them etc. Every single evening. I rarely go out in the evenings without them. I make a lot of sacrifices so I can teach them every day. This is how “rich” parents parent if they want successful kids.

Just moving a low performing kid to a “rich” school still misses out on the main and most important determinant of achievement - parent involvement every single night. Throwing more resources at a school won’t help either. Those schools already get more resources and yet this conversation continues.

One idea is 1:1 tutoring in person for each kid. More than once a week. With the same tutor. Basically mimic involved parenting. [/quote]

You have to look at the research . There are a number of private schools that were funded by billionaires, that tried every possible trick under the sun to get kids to perform better. Every. Single. School. Failed. To. Perform.
Theres a very liberal mindset that kids will do better if we just--- 
But its backward. [b]You can't force potential and character on others. [/b][/quote]

Actual you can which is why boarding schools, community schools, and parenting are effective.  You can’t achieve perfection in anything all the time, even molding people.
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So sending kids away is effective??  I don’t know if I like that but definitely schools need to just focus on education.   If kids aren’t ready to learn, then other services must be available outside of the school environment.   What is that saying ….a jack of all trades, but a master of none? That’s how I feel about public education right now.  They just are barely making it because they are spread so thin.

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