Parental Involvement: No Child Left Behind requires schools to develop ways to get parents more involved in their child's education and in improving the school. Contact your child's school to find out how you can get involved.
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"I'm going to contact my school to find out how I can get involved!"
ReplyDelete1. Bake cookies for the PTO fundraiser.
2. Make sure your child gets his/her homework done even though it's a silly waste of time. Do not swear in front of the children.
3. Make sure your child has a proper place to study with a big table and lots of art supplies.
4. Answer questions, but do not help with your child's homework. (Yeah, right!)
5. Bake more cookies.
6. Make sure that your child eats a good breakfast. If you don't, we can use that as an excuse.
7. Make sure that your child goes to the dentist. You don't want toothaches to interfere with learning.
8. Don't be poor.
9. Attend the really important (15 minute slot) parent-teacher conference where you can find out about issues that have been going on for months.
10. If you have more things you want to talk about with the teacher (like what you found out in your 15 minute time slot), then you can take time off from work to fit in a meeting at 3pm.
11. Go to town meetings to support their agenda (more money).
12. Join a school improvement team where you can talk about really important things like bus safety and healthy foods for hot lunch. (Oops, that's the school committee's big job.)
13. There's no need to help the school with union issues like seniority, bumping, and competence. Those are contract issues and we all know how there is no conflict between what benefits the teacher and what benefits the student.
14. Bake more cookies.
15. There is also no need to help with the curriculum. They are the college-trained experts in their own opinion.
16. Encourage after-school activities, like tutoring.
17. Make sure that learning gets done.
18. Be part of the(ir) solution, not part of the problem.
"Thank you for your input, we'll take it from here."
19. Donate gift baskets for the carnival.
ReplyDelete20. Donate raffle items for the carnival.
21. Help at Market Day and take orders for overpriced food items.
22. Go to "student-led" conferences with your 1st grader where nothing at all is accomplished. Nod politely.
23. Donate food and gift items for teacher appreciation day.
24. Don't ask too many questions about standardized tests. Nod politely at the non-answers you receive.
25. Take an active role in your child's education by ordering educational workbooks and materials for use at home.
ReplyDelete26. Volunteer in your child's classroom at least 2-3 a week. Never question the teacher or provide input.