Comments on: Holiday Roundup http://www.edwize.org/holiday-roundup Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Chaz http://www.edwize.org/holiday-roundup/comment-page-1#comment-3345 Chaz Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:13:17 +0000 http://edwize.org/?p=196#comment-3345 I just finished Saturday's NY Times and read with interest about the dumming down of the State Tests to show progress. I always suspected that the percentage of students with adequate reading and math skills were not improving as they reached high school and this article appears to confirm that. It is about time that parents understand that it is important for their children to get a quality education and part of that quality education is parental involvement! The UFT should be holding the DOE's feet to the fire and demand more teacher control of the classroom, not less. Classroom teachers are best able to determine the weaknesses of a student even if it means that parents are required to attend periodic meetings with the teacher to address those weaknesses. An uninvolved parent is usually linked with poor academic performance and disipline issues by the student. Too many people excuse the parent for the student's lack of progress. It's about time the parents and their apologists wake up that good learning starts at home! I just finished Saturday’s NY Times and read with interest about the dumming down of the State Tests to show progress. I always suspected that the percentage of students with adequate reading and math skills were not improving as they reached high school and this article appears to confirm that.

It is about time that parents understand that it is important for their children to get a quality education and part of that quality education is parental involvement!

The UFT should be holding the DOE’s feet to the fire and demand more teacher control of the classroom, not less. Classroom teachers are best able to determine the weaknesses of a student even if it means that parents are required to attend periodic meetings with the teacher to address those weaknesses. An uninvolved parent is usually linked with poor academic performance and disipline issues by the student.

Too many people excuse the parent for the student’s lack of progress. It’s about time the parents and their apologists wake up that good learning starts at home!

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