schools gradeing parents??? anyone else outraged?

this city is intentionally recruiting teachers from other countries, can you imagine your parenting skills being graded by a male teacher from some third world country where a female studnt is considered socially unacceptable for even showing her face in public? or how about a teacher from a country where a student makeing eye contact is considered to be disrespectfull, heck I have even read of african countries where sitting in a way that shows the sole of your shoe is an insult. for crying out loud we still have countries where anyone who dosnt cercumsice there female children are considered to be abusive….

http://fyi.cnn.com/2000/US/04/13/international.teachers/

The thought of allowing a teacher to grade a parent will cause more problems then less. Most parents already have a difficult time manuvaring between the teacher prisiple and special education department that this will be one more wat for then to refuse assistance in the classes. Teachers also who already tend to work four extra unpaid hours a week for their jobs will now have to find time to fill out report cards on parents. The idea at a high school level is impossible my son goes to the gifted high school in Rhode Island Classical high school and still half of his teachers do not know him by name and they see him every day. How will they remeber who i am when they see me maybe once every two months or at his iep meeting. From now on it will sound like “i’m sorry ms so and so but your child can not recieve services becuase you fluncked your report card and his problems are from your fualts as a parent” any excuse seems to do when they look at the cost of a special needs childs education.

Mia,

I agree with you…this sounds like good intentions gone bad. I can’t imagine responsible parents taking well to being “instructed” or “reminded” by a twentysomething teacher to put their kids to bed early, to get their shots, etc. It may be true that there are parents who need parenting classes and who are not taking their responsiblities seriously. However, these folks are not going to pay one bit of attention to a “grade” from their child’s school! If there are concerns in the school about how a child is being treated in the home, the proper course is to involve the school social worker in assessing the situation. Don’t insult every parent because of a few. JJ

Let us take it one step further…

Suppose a parent “flunks” parenting (in the eyes of the teacher) and then refuses to cooperate with the “assigned parneting classes”. Do we then have a call to CPS go out, to “save” these kids from this “bad parents”?

Seems to me this is mostly an exercise in absolving the schools for their shortcomings by redirecting the respnsibility to parents.

Can’t think of a stronger argument to support homeschooling than this one (aside from the basic choice of choosing an appropriate education (homeschool) over an inappropriate one (pick your favorite school district).