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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same issue at my school. Half of my class has folders that are never emptied. Nobody signs anything (report cards, progress reports, field trip slips, etc). Beyond frustrating. This is a parent issue. [/quote]

So what can we do to help struggling parents? Because people generally love their kids and want them to succeed. Most parents won’t care if their kid isn’t on the Straight A Honor Roll or doesn’t get into a magnet, but I’ve never encountered a parent who wanted their child to be illiterate and face humiliation in school over being in the lowest reading group.[/quote]

We do as much as we can at school but aside from abuse/neglect, these kids are stuck with their parents. Hell, my own mother comes into my school every week to read and practice sight words with my struggling students. Yes, it takes a village but parents are their child’s first and most important teacher. Part of your job as a parent is to support what goes on at school. I can’t imagine where I would be without my mom supporting my education. [/quote]

But some parents really are doing all they can. They might be working multiple PT jobs to keep their housing or have serious educational deficits themselves. The part that makes me steam a bit over the it takes a village comments is that most often, if you are in crisis poverty, your whole villages is as well. [/quote]

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