Are you that hands off a parent that you're unaware of what she'd been taught six or eight hours a day for months or years?
It's your job to know and your failure that you didn't. That blame doesn't lie with the school, it's in the mirror.
“Why did you need a summer at Sylvan to know what your daughter hadn’t been taught in math? Are you that hands off a parent that you’re unaware of what she’d been taught six or eight hours a day for months or years? It’s your job to know and your failure that you didn’t. That blame doesn’t lie with the school, it’s in the mirror.”
I don’t know where you live, but I’ve read everything from my local schools (not that I ever used them, but it is on line). I couldn’t find ANYTHING saying, to the effect of:
“We might do a crappy job here in the Lincoln (or whatever) School District, it is YOUR JOB, as a parent, to figure that out and get your kids educated elsewhere if we screw up. We take no responsibility for that.”
I tend to think that most schools instead tell parents that they will properly educate their kids. A few of us parents got VERY LUCKY and figured this out before subjecting our kids to this nightmare. Others, like yldstrk figured it out in time to save their kids and give them good futures. But most do not - for they really don’t know whether fractions should be learned in 3rd grade or 5th grade - but the year those fractions are learned (and stuff like that) will set their path for life.