Totally disagree! There have always been single parents and disfunctional families in society, but children have managed to learn once they are exposed to good teaching and good educational content whether by a tutor or classroom or experience. Just read an old Horatio Alger novel - which are fiction, I know; but that is the point. The expectation of the novel is that poor city kids can do great things if they put their will and mind to it.
It is the assumption that children from lower classes or disfunctional families cannot learn and the educational methods twisted to fit that model that have imprisoned most of American children today into becoming barely literate after 12 years of mandatory public education.
Yes. See Dr. Ben Carson for reference. There are others, but they don’t come to mind right now.
Pardon me madam.. l didn’t say they couldn’t. Take your pick tennis shoes or books... but don’t take your old hack to the Derby. It is not just the placement that we don’t choose but also the breaks we may get, (what we bring to the table) and ...
how hard we hit it?.
Kindest regards as always.
No, it is the acceptance of disruptive behavior from many kids which have sabotaged learning in inner-city classrooms.
In the suburbs, it's the abandonment of grouping kids by ability which has caused slower students to hold back the faster students.