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How parents with issues are viewed by schools
1 parent with an issue = A nutjob
2 parents with the same issue = A nutjob and a friend
3 parents with the same issue = A trio of troublemakers
5 parents with the same issue = “Let’s have a meeting”
10 parents with the same issue = “We’d better listen”
25 parents with the same issue = “Our dear friends”
50 parents with the same issue = A powerful organization
Based in personal experience I agree with this list up to the number 5. After that my modification would run something like:
10 parents with the same issue = “Let's have another meeting”
25 parents with the same issue = “Let's take a survey”
50 parents with the same issue = "Let's have a Community Conversation"
5 comments:
50 parents with the same issue = A powerful organization
Incomplete. The full answer is, "A powerful, well-funded organization with an ideological agenda."
This actually is a pretty common recital around SchwabLearning (the parents' discussion board)-- which I forwarded on to CJ.
I'm not sure what you mean, independent george, by "A powerful, well-funded organization with an ideological agenda."
Say there's a school district with an inadequate reading program, leaving many first, second & third graders not reading or struggling with reading. When the parents get together to lobby for a change in the school's approach to teaching reading (say to one that is validated by scientific research)--how is that ideological?
And in my experience "well organized" beats "well funded" hands down.
[I'm not sure what you mean, independent george, by "A powerful, well-funded organization with an ideological agenda."]
The way I understand this is that educationists do not welcome complaining parents and will try to discredit them in different ways.
I assume IG is referring to the phenomenon whereby parents who oppose whole language, balanced literacy, and constructivist math are seen as right-wing and, in the case of Texas apparently creationist.
Yes, Catherine's got it exactly right; sorry if I didn't make that clear. It's a phenomenon I still don't understand; I honestly don't see the linkage between political leanings and pedagogy, yet it's an assumption everybody in education circles holds, and never seems to question.
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