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Originally Posted by chewysmom Orinskye:
Also, regarding your statement of parents visiting the school. Since when has this become such an issue. Unless it is for a specific activity, parents do not belong in the classroom.. |
this is where you are wrong......... i teach in a school, no i do not allow parents to come into teh classroom during instruction unless there is a behavior problem with their child that needs to be observed and action must be taken..... i welcome parent support and HELP in the classroom i love it when parents help...... this case i was talking about is ONE SCHOOL, i am by no means dissing ALL SCHOOLs, and i didnt say that they are not held up to any standards, because all schools MUST be held to standards, but it is the adminstrations job to enforce them and sometimes they take it a little too seriously, or not serious enough (again, i am not talking about ALL PRIVATE SCHOOLS, we need to stop generalizing........... and if you cared to take a look at what she had on her course schedule does it look like she is learning much???? if parents are paying for a "higher" education then it sounds as if they are better off looking into a different private school.......
anyways, back to the parents in school......... in this particular case parents were DISCOURAGED from having that caring relationship that you preached about because it was "detrimental to life experience and that kind of caring is not goign to help them in life" (these are the ADMINISTRATORS EXACT WORDS) again this is one school and i am by no means generalyzing i am sure private education IS (when the right people are running it) a better place to learn than public school because the kids are given more individual attention (something i DESPERATLY WISH i could do with my own kids
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as far as the uniforms........... i was not "irritated" but if you look above i did state that even public schools have to wear uniforms in my district ( i was pretty much saying tough luck, or oh well...... just not in those exact words)