Op, this is such a great post and it’s very kind of you to share your thoughts with parents. Your students are lucky to have you as a teacher!

NP here. We have a very diverse school. Often we talk about how to make this or that group become more engaged at school. However, across race, SES, education level, employment status (SAH vs WOH) we notice that moms are way more involved with the school than dads are. Moms are the chief group of volunteers, they are the chaperones, they are talking to the counselors, teachers and principals.
There are some very involved dads, but the numbers are significantly lower than moms. I hope the lovely post by OP encourages dads to become involved too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like schools with low farms

You sound like you haven’t worked with kids. Np here, but I work in a school with about 80% FARMs and people are people. I adore the students I work with.

DP

It has nothing to do with 'not adoring' students who are FARMS.

We are at a high FARMS school, and it's obvious that OP teachers at a wealthier school. OP comments that it's the last time the kids will be living at home with their nuclear families. That is absolutely not the case in my neighborhood. We had 3 kids graduate HS last year on our street. Two of them still live at home and attend MC. One of them went to Salisbury. A good number of kids from our HS stay home after graduating. People have to be pretty well-off to send their kids away to college.

Your post made me cry. I hope my child has a teacher like you. I feel like at my 16 yo DD’s big MCPS HS, most of the teachers are very kind but they also seem too busy and distracted to make these types of observations.

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like schools with low farms

You sound like you haven’t worked with kids. Np here, but I work in a school with about 80% FARMs and people are people. I adore the students I work with.