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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is zero inherent difference between the intellectual potential of poor kids and rich ones.

Both of my parents grew up in poverty in Sir Lanka and are now doctors. I  grew up surrounded by people on both ends of the socio economic spectrum and overall there wasn’t any difference in how quickly and deeply  they pick up new topics or intellectual curiosity etc.

A rich kid who has been tutored outside of school to be able to master algebra in 6th isn’t any smarter than the kids who only get education in school in overcrowded classrooms with 30 misbehaving  classmates.[/quote]

Well actually they are.  Maybe at time of birth they were equally intelligent and had similar potential.  But you can’t take a kid that has been intellectually neglected all their life and expect them to be equals with kids that are primed with intellectual interaction since they were babies.  This is a home/parent problem, not a school problem.  The hours/days kids spend at home far success total time spent at school.  School can’t make up the different of a neglected home life.  They can make kids proficient, but even that is a challenge with zero home support.  [/quote]

This. It makes a difference getting support at home for a month, let alone go 18 years.[/quote]

It’s always been about parents. The last twenty years of initiatives in education have been trying to solve for this through the school and been failing. Now the narrative is it’s not the parents fault for the circumstances they have provided their kid.[/quote]

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