While it is convenient to blame teachers, education starts in the home and needs to be emphasized throughout the educational process. When the message from multiple sources makes education less important than sports, social media, etc., it isn’t surprising that our students are not performing well. From what I have observed, children from recent immigrants performed much better than average. In the home in which I was raised, my performance in school was a regular discussion. As a parent, I continued that tradition. Unfortunately, my kids haven’t been as diligent. I am guessing that is not happening much in the average home today.
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“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
— Joan Robinson, “Contributions to Modern Economics” (1978)
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