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Originally posted by taxwonk
See my immediate prior post. That's the problem in a nutshell. Since we moved to our new house, along with many a large number of other committed parents in the new developments, test scores and reading and math levels in the schools have gone up dramatically. And it's not just our kids coming in doing better than the people who have been here all along. It's mothers and fathers in the classrooms three to five days a week, helping out, and making sure that the teachers are doing the job, that has improved all the test scores.
I'm not a huge fan of Hilary, but she did get one thing right: it takes a village. DISCLAIMER: That is simply her quoting an old maxim.
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I'm in favor of parent involvement and I think it is a necessary condition to improve schools. But who the hell has time to spend during the day in the classroom? Maybe upper-middle class families can afford one parent to do that 1 day a week, but this really isn't an option in the middle/lower class because both parents (if they are in the home) need to work during the day.
