How Schools Reflect—or Fail to Reflect—the Lives of the Students They Serve. A Research Brief on the Link Between Parenting and Teaching Style from forwardED

Blaming 5-year-olds for not being “ready” is how broken systems excuse themselves. What if the real test isn’t whether our children are school-ready—but whether our schools are child-ready?

We don’t have a curriculum problem—we have a trust problem. Teachers don’t teach what they’re told; they teach what they believe.