Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level.
There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.
I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Schooling is so important.
As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.
I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.