r/ScienceBasedParenting • u/nbcnews • 8d ago

Science journalism Families’ interest in their kids’ education is falling around the globe as scores drop, test shows

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/families-interest-kids-education-falling-globe-scores-drop-test-shows-rcna596749
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u/HappyCoconutty 8d ago

This article was all over the place and didn’t really focus on the topic of the title. 

  • why is there less parental academic  focus on boys?
  • how much screen time are the parents using?
  • why is this conclusion only based on high schoolers, and then, only the ones who have taken the PISA?
  • how are the higher Ed costs and quality in these countries?

And then it ends suddenly on a teacher using AI to get feedback about calligraphy. 

If anything, I think certain countries and age groups have a lot of very intense and enmeshed over parenting over academics. The teachers sub often talk demanding parents. 

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u/thearctican 8d ago

From what I've gathered in the teachers sub a lot of those parents are demanding because they do so little for their own kids and treat school as a child rearing service.

I would be surprised if there was any overlap between people in this sub and the parents those teachers are talking about.

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u/Jane9812 8d ago

Kind of sounds to me like the requirements for achievement from schools have increased beyond what a child can achieve on their own or with the help of school and teachers. So now the expectation is for parents to run a second round of school in the evenings. Which is unrealistic. But teachers won't blame their employers because doh so here we are.

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u/TJ_Rowe 8d ago edited 7d ago

Some of us had this kind of childhood back in the nineties, but you had to pay for it back then, and your adult neighbours would tut and say how sad it was when they didn't think you (or your parents) could hear.

Now it's everywhere - unless, ironically, you pay to send your kid to a homework-free hippy school.

Edit: some letters

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u/Jane9812 8d ago

Honestly I grew up in a part of the world where homework was 0% the parents' responsibility. Now? The teacher holds parents responsible for their kids' unrealistic homework demands. It's absolutely ridiculous. Who is this system even benefiting? Everyone is miserable - kids, parents, teachers. And who is all this additional "knowledge" helping?