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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Ah see driving is not a stress factor for me and as I said in another post, my kids current private school is actually quite close as in way less than a mile, lol...so it's much, much closer to me than the public school would be, although the public school is two blocks as well for the elementary school.
PumpkinAngel
"...what if it just wasnt able to give your child the education you wanted, for one of them?"
I'd take measures other than switching schools.
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"I don't think more emphasis on social if it will cost some academically is a good plan."
I was thinking I would have been better off dropping down to somewhere in the top 10 percent rather than the top ten people in my high school class if it meant I somehow could have been less shy and more confident with a wider variety of people.
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great post.....if we could afford it,all three would be in parochial school (we're considering keeping ds there) but private because i felt there was some better academic benefit there? absolutely not.
Edited 9/7/2007 4:59 pm ET by egd3blessed
Do you think one parent should SAH or WAH or WOH PT so they can spend a lot of time at their childrens' schools? come on, you know me better than that. how involved a parent wants to be in their kids school has NOTHING to do with their work status
For me, one mile doesn't even take me off my peninsula.
I am more involved in the day to day things with my daughter. Checking her homework,looking over what she did for the day, talking about her day.
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