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 think I am familiar with the research you are speaking about. It is the most extensive study ever conducted and I think it is a good one. Yes you are right in the study children who attended more than 4.5 years prior to age five in day care were shown to have a SLIGHTLY higher RISK of behavioural problems. These findings although statistically significant could NOT be determined as casual.
They also found that children who attended high quality day care were more advanced verbally than all others and this association did not decrease with age.
Finally the biggest finding was that other care status did not have the significant impact on school performance or behaviour, parenting and genes did. From the report, "Parenting quality significantly predicted all the developmental outcomes and much more strongly than did any of the child-care predictors".
Cheers!
sorry I missed the humor, LOL! It's been a very busy morning (1st day back to school for my students!).
Carole
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That's no way to run a business."
What does it mean by "whose stock we should short"????
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Sigh.
Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man-The Big Lebowski
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