1. What are the names of your child’s best friends at school? Have you met their parents?
2. What is the name of your child’s teacher, the teacher’s office phone number, and the teacher’s qualifications to teach?
3. What are the qualifications of the school principal?
4. Have you read your child’s textbooks? checked them for factual content?
5. Do you have regular meetings/chats/email with your child’s teacher?
6. Do you speak up at school board meetings?
7. Do you regularly discuss and participate in your child’s homework?
8. Do you study proposals to modify school funding in your area, and vote accordingly?
If so, excellent!
If not, why the hell not? Don’t you care about the quality of education your child is receiving?
You don’t like the quality of your child’s education? Fine. Look into private schools, or homeschooling, or at least get more involved in what you do have.
I got into an argument with my children’s teacher the other day. However, I made her a cup of tea and she calmed down. It’s ok now.
This is a great post and ought to be reposted everywhere. I wish all parents would have to read and sign this and return it to school.