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Originally Posted by Ashartus
I think that's one of the biggest challenges children have in school. I lost count of how many times my wife tells me she talked to the parents of a kid who is struggling with reading, asking them to read together at home, and the response invariably seems to be "I don't have time for that."
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Which then stands to reason they won't have time for the much harder tasks of math in the later grades (I pick math because much like reading it builds on itself year over year). Once homework kicks up around grade 7-9 and the kid begins to verbally shut down and lie/forget about what they need to do? It's over.
My wife obviously teaches older kids than yours, and her stories are essentially the same. She gets parents freaking out over high school placement because their kids need to be in <whatever class> to get into university, and she has to find a diplomatic way of saying "your kid can't multiply or write a sentence... there's a few things to address before thinking about university."