Parental involvement does make some difference I would think. I get the demographic thing but I’m not going to look at an Asian student and assume they are smart without seeing their work or look at a black student and assume they can’t do the work. Granted more often then not the Asian students will perform better academically than black students according to the data but I still say excusing poor performance is a bad thing. Difference between that and someone who does honestly try but can’t do the work.
Parental involvement does make some difference I would think. I get the demographic thing but I’m not going to look at an Asian student and assume they are smart without seeing their work or look at a black student and assume they can’t do the work. Granted more often then not the Asian students will perform better academically than black students according to the data but I still say excusing poor performance is a bad thing. Difference between that and someone who does honestly try but can’t do the work.
Obviously individual students will differ from the norm, but when you look at an entire school district the law of large numbers dominates.
I’m not doubting that. I just hate the idea that if something is difficult at first, don’t try because the subject is racist.