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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is also very unclear to me that my parental participation in the public schools is welcome. If I show up and offer to teach classes, try out new ideas, or write a  math and arts-centered curriculum, can I actually implement my vision for my child’s education? Nope -  parent participation means baking cupcakes. So I find little reassurance that enrolling my kids in the local school and volunteering all my time there will result in substantial policy policy

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Education is not about making every student support the system, it is about educating the student! The system exists for the kids, not the kids for the system!

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I agree with everything the PP mentioned. The baking cupcakes really hit home because at my local school there really is no way for parents to participate in any type of fundamental change.  For example the school improvement plan (all part of the Baldridge process the school has to follow) does not include parents.  There are no annual surveys on what is going well with the school, how could we make it better.  The PTA does a lot to promote school culture, and that is an important part of the school experience for the kid, but it is not a vehicle for parents to get together an advocate at the school.  I don't know that my local elementary school, already over capacity, needs all the private school parents to return. I think the questions should be how can they get the parents they have to be engaged in the process.

As for education being about educating the students rather than making the students support the system, I could not agree more.
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