"How best to prioritize learning to read rigorously over scheming to get home and be the man of the house in the stead of the father who left? How best to find joy in school with so much hate and embitterment poisoning the rest of your life?"
How can we fix this? The problem is that no matter how much our teachers may push students to do better and work harder in school, their home life may work against it.
It's one of the side-effects of freedom. To some degree, there will never be a way to fix it. Unless we can control what happens when they get home.
How can we fix this? The problem is that no matter how much our teachers may push students to do better and work harder in school, their home life may work against it.
It's one of the side-effects of freedom. To some degree, there will never be a way to fix it. Unless we can control what happens when they get home.