23 more days until fall
We're still in summer. 23 more days until fall officially starts. And today is the last day of summer days at work where we can get half of the day off on Friday if we stack up our hours earlier in the week.
Kids started going back to school this past week. One year from now our oldest will be starting kindergarten. Things keep changing.
I heard an interesting podcast yesterday from Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was talking about New York City public schools and the government's desire to make school education equal for all ethnicities. My understanding from the podcast is that the government is looking at doing away with all public gifted school programs because too few black and Hispanic kids get into them. Instead, the gifted programs are mainly comprised of kids that are Asian and white. This recommendation came from a 2-year study trying to figure out how to solve this problem of inequality in New York City schools. No matter what if there are or aren't changes made some group(s) will be upset.
Mohler though brought up the fact that one of the underlying issues here is the family structure difference between many that are black and Hispanic versus those that are Asian and white. I don't recall the specific statistics, but there's a stark difference in the number of kids with both parents in black and Hispanic families versus those with both parents in Asian and white families. He mentioned that growing up in a family even just for your first 3 years of life where you have a mom and a dad sets kids on a very different path of education than those that don't. It's a privilege technically that makes a big difference in where kids end up in education.
As I think of it... no matter if my kids would be home-schooled, go to public or private school, they have a distinct advantage over kids where their parents don't even think about what type of school their kids will go to at all. My wife and I even decided to move where we live now because of the school system.
Kids started going back to school this past week. One year from now our oldest will be starting kindergarten. Things keep changing.
I heard an interesting podcast yesterday from Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was talking about New York City public schools and the government's desire to make school education equal for all ethnicities. My understanding from the podcast is that the government is looking at doing away with all public gifted school programs because too few black and Hispanic kids get into them. Instead, the gifted programs are mainly comprised of kids that are Asian and white. This recommendation came from a 2-year study trying to figure out how to solve this problem of inequality in New York City schools. No matter what if there are or aren't changes made some group(s) will be upset.
Mohler though brought up the fact that one of the underlying issues here is the family structure difference between many that are black and Hispanic versus those that are Asian and white. I don't recall the specific statistics, but there's a stark difference in the number of kids with both parents in black and Hispanic families versus those with both parents in Asian and white families. He mentioned that growing up in a family even just for your first 3 years of life where you have a mom and a dad sets kids on a very different path of education than those that don't. It's a privilege technically that makes a big difference in where kids end up in education.
As I think of it... no matter if my kids would be home-schooled, go to public or private school, they have a distinct advantage over kids where their parents don't even think about what type of school their kids will go to at all. My wife and I even decided to move where we live now because of the school system.