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[quote=Anonymous]I did see concern and worry on faces of parents, and I already see some slight inklings that the reality of the hard line they drew in Arizona is getting blurred in DC, despite the tough words.  For example, the school wants parents to check the CJ but then back off and leave kids to do the work.  Yet the English teacher fervently suggested parents go home and help kids prep for tomorrow's vocab quiz.  She also said she will not put it in the CJ if the kid missed homework, instead parents should check the kid's expanding file to see if they did their homework.  That is not the plan as I understood it.  The beauty of the parent's light touch (teacher enters a note in the CJ re the missing homework, parents sign the entry) is that it motivates kids of either involved or uninvolved parents, and puts the emphasis on achievement rather than approval.

Once even one teacher doesn't follow the plan, and asks parents to keep after the kid, you're losing the kid's self-motivation.  My KID told me that!

BASIS will lose the ability to say they had no bigotry of low expectations if they lower their expectations and let the quality of parenting be the dividing line between the kids who succeed and the ones who fail.[/quote]

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