Parents and school involvement

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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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Registered: 06-27-1998
Sun, 09-09-2007 - 11:00pm

Nope, not weird....I won't ever be a passive either.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Sun, 09-09-2007 - 11:06pm

I'm amazed as well.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Sun, 09-09-2007 - 11:16pm

Mine either.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 07-26-2007
Mon, 09-10-2007 - 2:27am

"No where"? you must define "no where" differently than I do.

Page 3, 'Results in Brief" 1st paragraph, it says, "....have changed schools frequently, attending at least three different schools since the beginning of first grade. ..."

Foot note 3 from that quote further states, "When referring to our analyses of the data from the Prospects Study, we use the term “children who have changed schools frequently” to refer only to third-graders who have attended three or more schools since the beginning of first grade."

So I find your claims without merit and am quite confident that your interpretation of the document is highly biased and misrepresentative of what the document is actually discussing.

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

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Registered: 07-26-2007
Mon, 09-10-2007 - 2:55am
Oh, preach it, sistah!!

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

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Registered: 08-18-2007
Mon, 09-10-2007 - 5:47am

What a shame your Principal's regular updates to the parents in the school-wide newsletter are so deficient and lacking in information. Since you find your Principal an "invaluable" source of information and even have to talk to him/her on a *daily* basis for all of this vast amount of information, the parents who cannot get to the school to talk to the Principal each day must be so uninformed.

From your post #1816: <>

Apparently then, your are one of the few fully informed parents at the school. The other parents who cannot make it up to the school much every day, for instance many of the working parents, are not fully informed. I guess I'm just glad my children's Principal is a better letter writer than your Principal.

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LOL. We have an enrichment program too and there's no way the PTA member in charge of the program has to be at the school every day for it. But of course you're a sahm and not a wohm employed in some capacity by the school!

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Registered: 08-18-2007
Mon, 09-10-2007 - 5:51am
ITA.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-18-2007
Mon, 09-10-2007 - 5:52am
Do you really feel targeted?
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Registered: 08-18-2007
Mon, 09-10-2007 - 5:54am
Actually, it's completely pertinent to this debate. Have you been following this debate?
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Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 09-10-2007 - 5:56am
but i can't imagine speaking with the teacher until i was blue in the face about something like standard testing. what i've gained from the fantastic communication i have iwth teachers/faculty is that this testing is a non negotiable they don't necessarily like,either but have to deal with,too...so we deal with it together,not dividied. empathy and all that.

 

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