Parents and school involvement
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| Thu, 08-23-2007 - 8:49am |
My question stems from a personal experience. My middle child is starting kindergarten next week. I've become fairly close with one of my dd's friend's moms- this is her first child entering the school system. She WOH, I do not, plus I have experience with the school, so she's been calling me with questions and comments.
It started to go bad when she called to complain that the kindy orientation is during the day- when she is working. Then it led to complaints about the parents' read aloud program (when the kids are in library) and other opportunities for volunteerism in the school. I get that these things aren't convenient for her, but I'm getting annoyed with the complaining. How can the kids have an orientation at night when they go to school during the day? None of these events are mandatory for parents or kids. And plenty of activities are scheduled for evenings: Back to school night, the PTA picnic, etc.
She thinks because she can't participate, no one should be able to, apparently. Plenty of WOHP do show up for these things. I think she's being unrealistic if she thought she could put a couple of kids through school without ever taking a vacation day. Am I wrong? Am I missing something here?

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"i have my kids totally bomb a test yet i knwo they know the material, they know they know the material and the teacher knows they know the material - that makes the test score pretty irrelevant to me. what i care about is are my kids learning, looking at a report card does not tell me that. daily converastions with them, wathcing how much effort they are putting in, listening to the questions the ask, frequent contact with their teachers, those things all tell me much more than a grade on a piece of paper."
I wouldn't say the score was pretty irrelevant. That is basically showing me that there is a problem lying somewhere if you know the material but can not get a good grade. So if they get D's and F's on their report card, that is ok as long as they know the material?
Hey that means to of you all are with in 45 mintues of me....Anyone want to do lunch one of these days?...LOL
Hi! Thank you!
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