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Originally Posted by David

As far as which is more important, parents or teachers: I forget which one of the books I just finished, Factfulness by Hans Rosling or Thank You for Being Late by Thomas Friedman, covers this but they review studies on education and found that teachers are the overwhelming key to better education. Sure bad parents are a big problem but I think that affects kids as they get older. If kids have good teachers from the beginning, even a bad parent can't derail them as bad as a bad teacher from the beginning can.

Interesting, and that makes sense, as you say, in the beginning. I would think most of the literacy issues come later on after the basics have been learned and before the more in depth learning begins, but maybe I'm wrong.

It may be that some of the discussion of 5th grade and 6th grade reading levels triggered my brain to mostly consider this an issue at those grades and higher.