> a higher percentage of private school parents value education and are engaged in their childrens' learning
It's just not true.
Higher income families can afford to take more time off, especially salaried workers, and are often two-parent households. This gives those parents time that hourly-based workers, poor, or single-parent households literally can not afford to spare.
They don't love or "value" their children's education any less, but they are in a situation where being as involved as those more fortunate than them is so much more difficult.
Wrong link, you're partially agreeing with the parent (they ARE less engaged), and I don't really buy that all parents at all socioeconomic levels believe in the power of education equally. I came from lower to middle socioeconomic levels and most of my peers came from families that DEFINITELY did not value education highly.
It's just not true.
Higher income families can afford to take more time off, especially salaried workers, and are often two-parent households. This gives those parents time that hourly-based workers, poor, or single-parent households literally can not afford to spare.
They don't love or "value" their children's education any less, but they are in a situation where being as involved as those more fortunate than them is so much more difficult.
Malcolm Gladwell has written about this - https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Kimberly-McCreight/dp/006235...