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Reply to "Your daily reminder that expecting parents to teach their kids at home is super inequitable"
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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that schools should be able to get all students to achieve at least minimal baseline standards without parents having to supplement. But understand that, as a practical matter, certain academic trajectories and opportunities will only be available to students that operate 2+ years above grade level. Some of these kids are advanced because they are truly gifted, but most are advanced because the parents are doing a bit extra--that is, they are affirmatively deciding what bodies of knowledge they want their kids to know/master and taking steps to ensure that happens. We shouldn't expect all parents to do that, but nor should we complain when some kids can't find their way into specialized programs in middle school and then demand to have the standards lowered due to concerns about "equity." [/quote]
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