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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I fully agree that supplementing at home should not be necessary (and I don't do it).

However, OP's list of parental responsibilities is woefully deficient. How about our responsibility to make sure our kids are respectful, to teachers and their peers? To instill a love of learning that makes them receptive to what they hear in school? To teach them to take responsibility for themselves and their schoolwork? To encourage them to be invested in their education and success? To teach them to listen? And on and on.

There's a lot more to education than multiplication tables and those are the critical skills that start at home. [/quote]

So you really expected me to list all of those things? Even you couldn’t do it - you wrote “on and on”. So really you just wanted to argue for the sake of arguing.

My basic point was that parents should not be responsible for finding and filling in gaps in curriculum. They should absolutely be responsible for sending their kids to school ready to learn, and support it at home through homework that the school assigns (which can include nightly reading, or suggested trips to the library). [b]Why should parents have to take on the mental load of identifying their school’s deficiencies?[/b][/quote]

Depending on what bodies of knowledge you want your child to acquire, almost all schools are deficient in some way, if still adequate for the most part. [/quote]

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