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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was talking to one of my neighborhood FCPS teacher who mentioned that there are lazy parents who can't get their kids to do basic homework, no daily reading, etc... no afterschool prep to get them ready for school. Teacher's teen daughter is a tutor at out local Kumon center that DC attends.

Same with older's basketball coach. No Prepp, no play minutes. DC learnt it the hardway. Now they prepp alot, and are on the court more and get a few baskets every single game, while the unprepared players and their parents just sit and watch, and ofcourse cheer for entire team.  [/quote]
Couldn't have said this better. Lazy and irresponsible parents foolishly assume they can outsource their parenting responsibility to public school teacher and team coach, and invest no time into prepping their child at home.  [/quote]
 
How does this relate to this topic and AAP? Also, reading to your kid and doing HW isn’t typically the prepping ppl refer to on here. That’s basic parenting. Taking paid courses and doing workbook drills on tests like cogat and NNAT, is prepping. [/quote]
You must be one of the privileged suburban college graduated who discourage low-income families from using affordable resources and shame their parents and students who invest their own time for their betterment. Preparing outside of school is critical and necessary as public school teachers are burdened dealing with ill-prepared students, and it doesn't require expensive resources. Upper-middle-class, college-educated parents quietly use their expertise to help their children read and write at home. However, take full liberty into shaming less-educated, low-income families for buying a $20 workbook, which costs less than two Spicy McCrispy meals, to assist their children. This double standard is unfair and perpetuates educational inequality.
To low income families: you can help your kids and here is the link:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=nnat+cogat[/quote]

This post is full of inaccuracies.  And racism/classism.  [/quote]

I don’t know, I think there is a lot of truth there.

1) Upper Class/Middle Class families are far more likely to have the time/ability to provide academic support at home. The parents are more likely to have graduated from college and hold advanced degrees. They are more likely to be reading to their kids as toddlers and into early ES. They are probably playing games at home that teach colors, counting, shapes, letters and the like.

2) Upper Class/Middle Class families are more likely to have the resources to pay for outside enrichment. That be could through camps that are academically based, like STEM camps or history camps or writing camps. They can afford to have kids tested when there seems to be a deficit and find out what might be causing the issues. They can get their kids outside support through specialized tutoring or therapies. They can also afford having an advocate at an IEP meeting.

3) Lower SES families are less likely to have the resources to provide tutoring. Lower SES families tend to be less educated and able to help with academic prep before K, like reading to their kids and teaching colors, shapes, sounds, numbers, and letters. Their kids tend to start behind in K and the gap grows, there is a ton of research showing this.

Can lower SES families help their kids? Yes. There are resources that they can use but it is harder for the families. There is Khan Academy to help with math but parents have to know it exists and be able to help their kids with it when their kids run into questions. Lower SES families can find inexpensive workbooks to help their kids but they need to know about it and have the time to be able to do them with their kids.

The reality is that very few lower SES families are able to utilize those resources. That is why the gap between the rich and poor is growing and the middle class is shrinking. The only families that I think should be focused on AAP are lower income families because I see the value for a kid who starts behind but does well on the tests is moved into a class that gives them additional academic supports. I don’t think that middle class and upper middle class families need AAP as much because they do have their own resources that they can provide. [/quote]

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