I do care about how well my kid does in school, but I’ve given up trying to make heads and tails out of the API school rankings. Schools teach only to the extent of passing tests these days. Better school districts will try to separate kids into respective capabilities to some extent (CarmelV does this a bit). But even then, it has limitations. You can spend money to send your kids to enrichment (which I do), and that sort of helps (at least for language/reading/writing/math). But the majority of the difference lies in what the parent does (or does not do).
I have friends who work with their kids all the time, and naturally they are high achievers. I have my own time/resources limitations right now, so there’s only so much I can do….That’s the fact of life…There’s no such thing as an even playing field…deal with it…
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It’s not a even playing field but it can be tilted towards that.
I have a friend who is a handy man. His wife,who is not really what you would call bi-literate, helped their oldest son go from ESL anchor baby to
a nice degree in something like bio-mechanical engineering. Nice kid too, a young man that anyone would be glad to hire.
