Are they advancing?

After assessing the parents' knowledge from math night, I came to the conclusion that most of these parents are so far behind, that they lack basic skills on reading, writing and math. Unfortunately their short coming affects their kids' academic progress. I don't need a Ph. D to know this, but there has been some research that supports my theory. So far our school's kids have shown lower academic scores and slower progress compare to their counterparts. These, so called academic progress, scores provide a profile that the teachers aren't doing their jobs, and that the children are simple minded. But it is really how it appears? Just to think that a child can come to school dressed and semi prepared from a home that has parents that are a century behind in their basic skills is almost a miracle. Are these kids really simple minded? When they entered kinder they hardly know their names or their parents' names, much less other crucial information. They don't know one single letter sound, and lack basic language, and yet after a few years in school they move on to a position that stands right below their counterparts. It seems to me that their progress could be clasify as unmeasurable. I would say that these children are making bigger gains than those that are above them. These children started from way below their couterparts, and yet every night, every weekend and every vacation they go back to the same environment that provides zero support for their accademic growth, but they manage with the help of our wonderful teachers to get back in line and to intend one more time to reach grade-level standards. I think our kids are amazing!