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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b] if most of the students are supported at home[/b][/quote]
This is the root cause of most of our educational issues.

It's funny too when you read about people blaming strivers and parents who are enriching their child creating artificially achieved AAP status and creating gaps... blah blah blah, and then see those same people talk about what the schools can do for the lower performing children to close those gaps or bring them up to the grade level standard.

They just freakin answered their own question. Parents can raise the bar for those kids every single time... but parents can't be bothered to bring up the low performing kids because thats the schools job.

Even better is these conversations appear to take place between people champion their child and other people that champion the poor performing children, but usually not the parents of the poor performing children. Probably because if they had the conviction to advocate for their poor performing child's school record, that child probably wouldn't have a poor record. These people don't care. [/quote]

This is all true. But it’s not the child’s fault that he or she has dud parents, any more than it’s your child’s “fault” they got involved educated parents. We can’t throw all these kids under the bus because you blame their parents. Some parents don’t feed their kids either. Do those kids deserve to starve?[/quote]
Academically, they have access to all they need. I dont support providing more resources to kids whose parents will lead them to academic failure no matter the cost or effort. And removing honors classes, detracking, removing standards... all the academic changes in the name of equity should be thrown right out the window as we all know they wont work. This wastes time and money on a losing battle.

We definitely should keep feeding kids who need meals due to poverty or other reasons. The good thing about feeding poor kids at school is that, the results are clear. They are fed. We know this immediately. [/quote]

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