> But in those three years, only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened An enormous amount of these kids come from broken

> But in those three years, only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened An enormous amount of these kids come from broken families. I volunteered at a charter school in Cleveland, and would hear the exasperation in the school director's voice over parents who would pick up their kids while strung up on drugs, or not show up at all. There were also a number of great parents who were engaged with their kids, but this was also selection bias because the charter school was specifically for finding the students with the best chances of escaping the cycle of poverty in that area, and taking them away from the public school system. This article should be used for awareness, not fingerpointing. This is an extremely challenging problem