Apparently one can overcome some of that with sufficient resources. But in general you make a good point The main thing is probably not that the parents help w

Apparently one can overcome some of that with sufficient resources. But in general you make a good point The main thing is probably not that the parents help with all those "science" projects the pranksters inflict in the primary grades, rather that the parents back the school and convey the message that school is important. A woman I know well remarks that she taught O- and A-level chemistry to girls from villages barely out of the stone age in east Africa 50 years ago.