#BlackMastodon only:
The debate about whether parents should or should not spend time educating their kids after school, or if that's the school's job, has strong opinions all around.
I don't judge any opinions on the spectrum, because I know that those that feel like "it's the school's job" say so more out of the reality of time constraints of surviving US racism as an underpaid Black person, and I know that Black parents are *more* likely to help their kids with homework.
And... 2 Sigma🤷🏿♂️
Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem shows that school doesn't really work for creating academic excellence.🤷🏿♂️
Because an average student that gets individualized mastery level teaching, performs two standard deviations above their peers.🤯
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
Go to a school with 1000 kids. Find two identical twins, with identical mediocre performance, at 50th percentile. 1050 SAT scores. Now take one twin, give her individualized mastery level instruction. She will now be 98th percentile, 1550 SAT.
A lot of what people call "Better schools" are just schools that get closer to that individualized, mastery level tutoring. 🤷🏿♂️
* Smaller class sizes
* Teachers that actually care
* Not restricted by a state level curriculum
* Ability to explain concepts in the way that resonates with the student.
Show me a college kid that got straight As in a difficult major, and I'll show you someone that went to office hours, attended study groups, did research with a prof, etc. Shrinking that class size.
@mekkaokereke one small point from my time teaching public school in Baltimore. My school did not suffer from any lack in teachers caring. In fact, our teachers were far more intensely dedicated than the ones in the high performing suburban public school I went to. The difference was that it was our job to try to correct all the effects of the systematic damage of poverty.
