Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
DC Public and Public Charter Schools
Reply to "Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools? "
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]People talk about "working on a school". Studies show that the kind of parent involvement that involves PTA fundraising doesn't have any effect on student achievement. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/and-dont-help-your-kids-with-their-homework/358636/ http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2014/04/12/parental-involvement-is-overrated/?referrer= The schools in upper NW DC have high test scores because they have wealthy, well educated parents. They didn't "build a school"; they just sent their kids there with other kids of similarly well educated parents, and voila.[/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
