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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]

[i][b]Why do people always bring race into conversations? Tsk tsk race baiters. What the poster is saying is that personal accountability starts with self, no government agency or schoo district can close a gap that starts with people. People —-Black, White, Brown & Asian must make a personal choice to be married before having children (the way it’s designed to be), saving money and being self-employed or in stable employment. Whiteness does not guarantee financial stability ——&gt; see:  West Virginia, Maine and other states. Instead of extending the school year we need to get to the root of the problem. Sex education in communities where people think it’s okay to have multiple children by multiple men and men think it’s okay to have multiple children all over. There should be a tax incentive to help flip childhood poverty, I.e. getting married before children, being financially stable,etc. The tax incentive could work for those who are poor, working and lower middle class. This is where the county should start because it hits the root of the problem. Schools shouldn’t be surrogate parents.[/i][/b][/quote]

Look at the folks on this board: marriage doesn’t guarantee financial stability or two involved parents. Unless you want to require a licensing procedure to have a biological child and then remove kids immediately if a marriage doesn’t work out, there will always be parents who need extra help. [/quote]

Amen.  This is a pilot that MCPS is doing in schools that are 75% FARMS.  They will see what the outcome is and decide whether to scale it up.  It seems like people would prefer that nothing is doing to help these kids, and that's sad.[/quote]

Hopefully it will help. My students are academically devastated by nearly 3 months of no school during the school. Heck, even a week and a half during winter and spring breaks sets them back. I'm very interested in the results of this. I think posters are just frustrated that there is a belief that the achievement gap will be solved at school only. I think we should look at success stories and see what in their lives contributed to the success. I don't necessarily think a kid needs 2 parents to be academically successful. I was raised by a single mother who did the job of 2 parents. Two parents would have been easier on her but it certainly is not a requirement. My mom never graduated from college but did go back to get her AA degree when my dad left. My grandparents came over to our house sometimes to help while my mom was in class at night. My grandparents made us do our "lessons" when we got home from school. On the days they couldn't be there, we would lock ourselves in. My grandfather would remove a part from the TV so we couldn't watch it until he got home. Lol. I do the same thing now with my son's PS4 remote. Neither one of them went to college but we didn't know that they probably didn't understand our homework past a certain grade. They always checked to make sure we did it and if it was messy (my brother), they would make him do it again. We were expected to do well and go to college even though we really couldn't afford it. We worked starting at age 14 in the summer and then after school. We worked PT in college too. We shopped at consignment stores for clothes and ate a lot of canned foods like soup. My grandparents would bring over fruits and vegetables sometimes from their neighbor's backyard. I am rambling but it bothers me that single mothers are given a bad rap. I am a single mother and I envy my child's life. He's got it good! Think of the successful people raised by single moms. All it takes is one good parent.[/quote]

Kudos to you.  You sound like a great mom.  [/quote]

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