javert:

one problem with education (one of many many many) is that schools keep on saying ‘we want to make outlr students successful regardless of their home life’ and then they just… don’t even put in the batest effort towards doing that. If you want students to be successful at school if they have a bad home life, you need to stop relying in the home for A N Y T H I N G

for example: you cannot depend on a child’s home to provide a good environment for doing homework –> kids with poor home wnvironments will be punished because they cannot do their homework –> this is not supporting children regardless of their home environment

stop punishing children for not having their parents sign forms (esp academic ones- reading logs, report cards, etc). stop making field trips opt-in-by-parent-signature, make them opt-out

don’t assume that every child (or any child) eats at home. at the very least, offer free breakfast and lunch to every student. ideally offer a dinner, too.

stop requiring out of school commmitments like community service hours, group projects that require meeting out of school, anything that requires bringing supplies in to school

stop only offerring ‘extra curriculars’ [things like band/chorus, sports, enrichment classes or clubs] outside the school day. it makes a whole segment of the population unable to attend

ideally, schools would have a place where students can tend to their personal hygeine, like showers etc

if you require students to bring a book to read, you better provide a library

there’s like so much more, too. but making the student’s school success at least /theoretically/ not depend on their home life is the absolute bare minimum of treating disadvantaged students with dignity and not kicking them when they’re down

tldr if you say ‘we want our students to succeed at school regardless of their home life’ stop making academic success depend on things that happen at home or out of school