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[b]OK. What can be done, by whom, to make that happen?[/b][/quote]

Nothing can be done. It would require people to PERSONALLY make this decision and to change their value system. Schools cannot and SHOULD not be held responsible for making sure that this happens  to compensate for what is lacking at home. There is only.so.much. that schools can do. HOw about personal ownership and pride as a parent that you want the best for your child? [/quote]

So for children who have parents who (according to you) have lacking homes is, what's your answer? Too bad, you should have picked richer, whiter parents?[/quote]

As I said, [b]there's only so much that the schools can do.[/b]  I think no one can argue that MCPS is already doing a lot to compensate for the lack of whats happening at home; but to expect that we continue to throw more and more resources on top of what's already being done to completely close the gap is foolish. People need to stop being dillusional, thinking that the solution is solely on the schools to come up with.  Your assertion that one can only be rich and white to care about a child's education is effed up by the way. I'm a minority middle class parent who have children in a FOCUS school. Lots of parents; not just white or rich, care about their children's education. The point I'm making is that caring about your child's education is something that personally anyone regardless of your SES or ethnicity CAN do. [/quote]

OK. Is there something that not-schools can do, and if so, what?

The achievement gap is between kids from wealthy families and kids from poor families, and between kids from white and Asian families and kids from black and Hispanic families. That doesn't say that black, Hispanic, and poor parents don't care about their kids' education. That says that, as a group, test scores for kids from poor, black, and Hispanic families are lower. So, why? You say that it's not because poor, black, and Hispanic parents don't care about their kids' education, and I agree with you on that.[/quote]

Yes- personal accountability.  Don't have kids out of wedlock. Go to college (there's plenty of aid available for poor students). Don't go to jail. Let's start there.  I'm aware of the achievement gap. I guarantee you though that the kids on the lower achievement scale are growing up in households where their parents or parent is in one of those 3 predicaments above (had kid out of wedlock, didn't go to college, one parent is in jail).[/quote]

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