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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is so telling that simply saying that losing education has costs elicits these defensive and ridiculous responses.[/quote]

Nah. Perhaps people with critical thinking skills are simply tired of listening to the same groups of parents whine about every single thing, [b]skirt responsibility for being parents[/b], and blaming the school system for every single thing in their lives. [/quote]

I definitely don't believe that there's a direct line between skipping parts of the math curriculum this year and losing the (apparently) cut-throat global competition to be an Alpha rather than an Epsilon. [b]However, since when is it a [i]parental responsibility[/i] to teach your child math?[/b] Isn't that what we have educated/certified teachers, in schools, for? The parents' responsibility is to make sure the child goes to school; the school's responsibility is to teach math.[/quote]

Ahem, pre pandemic, [b]it was the parent's responsibility to make sure the math got learned.[/b] If your child never got a dud math teacher before, count yourself lucky. There was no time to wail that the teacher did a poor job and now my kid is struggling. You do what you have to to give them the math foundation they need to progress.
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Sez you. What are schools for? What about parents who don't have math or math education skills - are they bad parents? Are their kids just out of luck?[/quote]

[b]It's a responsibility I take on[/b], because I know they are going to need it. Other parents will do what they want. Those without the ability to access whether their kids need it are not bad parents who are willfully trying to harm their kids, but their kids may come out with a shaky foundation. That's been the state of public education for a few generations now.
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That doesn't make it a parental responsibility. That makes it something you feel like you need to do.[/quote]

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