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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting thread. My kid attended PK3 at a Title 1 school and I was never quite sure what these meetings were about. I didn't know that their primary purpose was for parents to help each other.

I remember how on one occasion, I missed a meeting because my child was sick, and afterwards the teacher said how unfortunate it was that I wasn't there because she had wanted me to tell the other parents about the things we were doing at home to help our child, who was doing very well, succeed. I just breathed a sigh of relief that I had dodged what I thought would have been an extremely awkward situation of me (the only white, UMC parent in the room) "educating" the other parents on how to improve their kids' performance. Especially since the truth was that we didn't do anything tangible - we never practiced anything academic at home (I didn't think it was necessary to do these things at age 3), and we didn't even read all that much because my child wasn't that interested in books at the time. Obviously our home environment still somehow furthered my child's success, but there wasn't anything that I could have told the other parents to do.[/quote]

Oh god no.  How incredibly awkward.  And why on earth would it be better to hear it from other parents than from a teacher?[/quote]

PP here and I agree. I was also surprised that the teacher (who was black) didn't seem to see how awkward this would have been.[/quote]

Exactly.  Because I'm sure they've been told a million times already to read to their child and talk with their child and take them to activities and whatnot.  But what's really going on with my daughter's reading is that I was an early reader, and my sister was an early reader, and my mother and father were both early readers, and I didn't really do anything special to teach her to read, she just got there faster for whatever reason.  What is there to say, really?[/quote]

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