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Post by jenrik2714 on Jan 25, 2007 14:43:12 GMT -6
I agree with your statement. I am constantly on my children about HW and I constantly email them all the time and I check gradebook. On the flipside, some parents do not have the capabilities like we do. They are too busy working trying to work to support them... Granted, that is no excuse, but this is the way it is. I think it's self-perpetuating and the schools can only do so much. Parents may want their children to do well in school but didn't themselves so don't know how to make that happen, or in some cases don't value education, or in others like you said too busy making ends meet to give the necessary attention. Maybe some parental seminars from maybe some social service agency would help. In this school district, alot of people don't want to be by the low income kids. To them, it brings them down---as displayed by the recent boundary wars. I nmean enough is enough...you don't have to redicule someone b/c their parents don't make over $100,000/year. |
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Post by momto4 on Jan 25, 2007 15:07:12 GMT -6
Maybe some parental seminars from maybe some social service agency would help. In this school district, alot of people don't want to be by the low income kids. To them, it brings them down---as displayed by the recent boundary wars. I nmean enough is enough...you don't have to redicule someone b/c their parents don't make over $100,000/year. Maybe. On the flip side, at a WV meeting about highly selective colleges the question came up as to whether it was better to have your child in the top x% of a highly competitive school like WV or to be top dog at a less competitive HS. If the pool of students includes a greater number of those with low performance then this puts a high performing student at a higher class rank. (regardless of whether this relates to the income of the students' families, I've seen kids' performance all over the map from all income levels/types of neighborhoods) |
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Post by gatormom on Jan 25, 2007 15:18:21 GMT -6
Maybe some parental seminars from maybe some social service agency would help. I do know that some of the work the SD has done to bring scores up has been to work with parents, educating them. The scores are going up, they must be doing something right somewhere. |
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Post by gatordog on Jan 25, 2007 15:48:44 GMT -6
I am looking forward to seeing the expected 204 gains with the low income student subgroup in Meeting Requirements. This wasnt mentioned in the original article. In that subgroup, 131 outperformed us (and 203), with vastly larger sample size of course.
I dont know if the number differences are really significant, yet its plausible to say this supports that jenrick is on to something: if low income students are a district-wide tiny minority....its hard for the SD to have them "fit in/be accepted" or "to meet them where they are at", or "appreciate where they are coming from" and succeed, at least in terms of these standardized tests. I think we all heard words a year ago (from perhaps a small yet very vocal group) that you didnt have to read too much btw the lines to see such attitudes displayed.
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