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All the uninterested parents would become really interested around selection time trying to get their kids into the 'best' schools. As soon as the choice is ma
by willvarfar 12y ago
All the uninterested parents would become really interested around selection time trying to get their kids into the 'best' schools. As soon as the choice is made, however, they'd be back to indifference. School is viewed as delegating responsibility from parent to teacher.
In England there have been so-silly-its-staggering stories of anti-terror legislation being used to spy on parents suspected of lying about their addresses in order to get their kids into particular school catchment areas. You'd imagine that these are parents who super-care. I'm skeptical; I think they are parents who have an intense interest only at the beginning and no lingering part in educating their children.
- wtallis 12y agoAnd the worst thing is that to a limited extent, the caring-only-at-registration strategy does help that family some, because their kids will at least be in a functional learning environment for part of the day. It only falls apart when the families that care get diluted enough that the teachers have to spend too much time dragging along the unengaged students.
- cafard 12y agoSome New Jersey school districts put effort into tracking down kids from out of the district, and some New Jersey parents put effort into getting their kid into a district where they don't reside. And I have known people in the District of Columbia to put work into out-of-bounds registration for particular schools.