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originally posted by: tadaman
a reply to: xuenchen
The problem with education is that you cant blame a school system. Well to a degree.YOU have to be very involved in your kids education. My wife and I home school our kid AFTER regular school. My kid is currently going to school in freaking Mexico. I bet she will incorporate into the American school system without skipping a beat. Its not because the schools are great here....Its because we care and are involved in her education.
I know many hispanic families. The problem is that they are not involved in the education their kids receive. Maybe its work, or social stress...I dont know or care. If you have kids then YOU must live and die for them. Thats why certain ethnicities do better. Its not privilege. NO. Its time and effort. Plain and simple.
Asian parents practically go to school with their kids and live every test and assignment like it was their own.
I know a guy whos parents would sit down and do his homework with him EVERYDAY until he graduated college.
He now has a great job and will probably be a freaking millionaire in a decade. Thats the difference.
I say dont bitch. Roll up your sleeves and get dirty with it. Dive in. If you really care, sacrifice something. Your time for one.
originally posted by: PraetorianAZ
My GF is in her last year of school before she becomes a teacher. Its crazy the things she has to put up with. Parents thinking children acting up and not getting good grades is the schools fault not the parents..
Most of these parents are idiots though. My GF cant send home any notes to parents or fliers or anything that’s not at or below a 3rd grade reading level. Because most parents wont be able to comprehend. That’s school policy think about that..
originally posted by: xuenchen
I can agree mostly that the "Parents" play a major role.
But how can we explain away the fact that many immigrants form the late 19th and early 20th Centuries produced so many successful children?
They probably had the same or similar attitudes as recent immigrants.
And how do we explain the "American" Parents that ignore the kids and schools?
What is the complex?
originally posted by: VforVendettea
If they want their kids to learn to think they should find some 50-100 year old textbooks that were written so that people could teach themselves.
What passes for schools to day are prison-like warehouses meant to indoctrinate children and keep them too confused about how things work to invent the television while plowing the fields.
If public schools were any good the rich would send their children to them.
originally posted by: PraetorianAZ
My GF is in her last year of school before she becomes a teacher. Its crazy the things she has to put up with. Parents thinking children acting up and not getting good grades is the schools fault not the parents..
Most of these parents are idiots though. My GF cant send home any notes to parents or fliers or anything that’s not at or below a 3rd grade reading level. Because most parents wont be able to comprehend. That’s school policy think about that..
originally posted by: WilsonWilson
Dont low income earners in the States have to work about 3 jobs to live? do these childrens parents have the time, are they even home to help with homework?
It's so easy to blame parents when kids are at all school for the majority of their time.
Schools are like factories now, teachers have no time or inclination to help struggling children.
originally posted by: xuenchen
But how can we explain away the fact that many immigrants form the late 19th and early 20th Centuries produced so many successful children?