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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are very few things that parents do at the school that is considered grunt work. Most of it is time spent with their children.[/quote]

That's true. Mostly I just go and hold hands with my first-grade kid as we stare lovingly into each other's eyes.  :roll: 
Oh wait, except for those times that I'm giving spelling tests to small groups, reading stories aloud to a group of 25 so that the teacher can work one-on-one with 2-3 students at a time, helping the teacher manage reading or writing workshop stations, filing weekly papers into take-home folders, making copies in the copy room so that teacher doesn't have to spend an additional hour of her time after school every day waiting in line at one of two copiers that the school has, helping with art class, or assisting kids find and checking out books in the library. Nothing to see here, though. Apparently, according to some extremely kind PPs on this thread, we could just stop doing things like this altogether and everything would be smooth as silk because obviously we are just self-important busybodies and the teachers don't really need any assistance from anyone.[/quote]

Where are these schools where parents spend so much time working in the classrooms?

At my kids' APS elementary the only time parents are in the classroom w/ their own kids are to do the very occasional "guest reader" activity.  I asked about helping in the library and was told they don't use parent volunteers.  One year a teacher asked for help filling weekly folders, but that was only done when the kids were out of the room at a special.  And, you could be a reading buddy for students who were struggling with reading, but never your own child or their classroom.

The school seemed to run perfectly fine without having parents in the classroom all the time.[/quote]

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