On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:38:04 UTC, Dave wrote:

On 30 Dec 2004 22:16:17 +0700, "Chris Lasdauskas"
said:

I AM a teacher - and in the 'east' - the kids that do well TEND to be
the ones who have parents that give a damn. About them and about
their education. The kids that don't get that TEND to not do as well
as they could.

Correlation is not, of course, causation. It may perhaps be that smarter
parents TEND to have smarter kids and also TEND to be more involved in their
kids' education.


That's true. But I seem to remember that some of the studies addressed
that and were able to argue for causation as well.

My gut feeling is that parent involvement (given a reasonable learning
environment) counts for a lot.-- even if it as simple as 'modelling'
something like reading a lot, kids tend to benefit from that.

Chris