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Weird that you want to apply this horrible idea to the poorest strata of society. Maybe we should try it on the richest and see what happens? Or we drop the id
by yunohn 5y ago
Weird that you want to apply this horrible idea to the poorest strata of society. Maybe we should try it on the richest and see what happens?
Or we drop the idea that parents should be responsible for their child’s academic performance; moreso when they’re struggling with low wage jobs and scraping by.
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- b9a2cab5 5y agoThe idea that parents are not responsible for their children's education is why American education is a failure despite spending the most per capita. We should look to Asia for a good model. The culture promotes parents taking an active role in education and schools publicly rank students to motivate achievement. The results show in international competitions, college admissions, and grad school admissions.
- yunohn 5y agoI come from an Asian country and I would argue that parental involvement is not that much different than the USA. Parental pressure and resultant stress is much worse though, so it’s not really a good thing. Ranking and comparisons are also very demotivating at the same time. Some parents have time and others don’t - just like the USA. The main difference is the style of education itself, and the way that children are taught. While I don’t have a solution to the USA problem, it’s definitely not because “parents are uninvolved”.