Quote Originally Posted by GPCharles View Post
It also requires the involvement of parents in the educational process.

Parents have to read to their children from an early age to get them involved in reading. The school system can't do it all. Why do children in top-rated districts do well - in part because their parents are totally involved with their education. They attend back-to-school nights, parent-teacher conferences, they check their child's homework every night, etc. It goes on and on. Parenting school-age children is a full-time job.
Sure.....but in the real world. Some of those parents didn't graduate HS themselves and may be functionally illiterate.

Many are also working 2 jobs just to keep food on the table, including evenings and weekends.

In an ideal world more parents would be capable of providing greater assistance in their child's education.

But one must start with the world as it is; not as one wishes it was.