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1. More paperwork? Really?!
2. What would be the end result. If a teacher gets enough bad reviews, they could be fired. What would happen if a parent gets enough bad reviews from teachers? It seems pointless.
Though I will go on the record to say that there are too many parents who can't control their kids. Those parents have no business having children in the first place.
Republican State Representative Kelli Stargal (FL) has proposed legislation that would mandate teachers evaluate parents on their involvement in their kids' educations. (Sorry I can't provide a link at the moment, but it's on the front page of CNN. Could someone else oblige?)
Any thoughts?
No, I have enough to do evaluating the kids in my classroom who I see every day. How much more do they want teachers to do? Now we're to be mom and dad's evaluator??
I am not in position to evaluate my student's parents.
I don't think anything positive would come from it. Ideally parents and teachers should form a team to help the kid and there's already enough pointing fingers to go around.
Let teachers do the teaching and parents do the parenting. Come together to help the child achieve their best, but otherwise keep focus on your end of the job, not micromanaging everyone else in the equation. No one responds well to that.
The biggest valid issue I have heard people raise in regard to this is kids who arrive very late to school or sometimes not at all because parents don't bother.
In our old old district, truancy was well-defined and there was a specific point at which parents went before a judge, because there were parents who some days did not feel the need to get off the couch and take the kids to school. It was controversial because sometimes parents with excused medical absences would get caught in the truancy net and have to appear before the judge with doctor's notes.
I think that defining a certain amount of tardies (and not 5 min tardies but the hour ones) as an absence and then pursuing truancy violations would be more effective than giving that parent a "not satisfactory" grade.
As far as the other aspects, don't many people feel helicopter parents are a bad thing? Won't this encourage some parents to become more "helicopter-y" to suck up for a good grade?
I think its a bad idea. Its always good to get involved and know the people who teach your children, but grading is not going to work.
I do not recall this need for parents to be so involved when I was a kid. I was born in 1970. My mom had an "OK' level of involvement - one year out of 13 she was the class mom and worked our booth at the Christmas fundraising fair. She signed report cards, she bought my clothes, she registered me and got me my shots, she called me in sick, and she bought me shoes when the old ones no longer fit or had holes in the soles. She rarely helped me with homework. I never saw her at school. In fact, I don't recall seeing any parents at school. Somehow I managed to graduate #1 in my class and get scholarships. What is so different now that parents can do what my mom did but fall short in the eyes of the school?
Does anyone really care what a teacher thinks of your parenting?
This isn't necessarily about parenting overall, this is about communication with the school according the article.
I would guess that the questions would be:
How do you rate the parent in regards to communication between the parent and yourself?
Do you feel that the parent responds to your inquiries in a timely manner?
etc... Obviously the teacher won't evaluate other forms of parenting.
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Originally Posted by TheEconomist
Will teachers likewise be evaluated and retained or terminated based on the evaluation?
Teachers are evaluated everyday. I'm evaluated four times a year by my principal and others. If I mess up in a communication with a parent, it is usually brought to my principal's attention and then the crap rolls downhill. My principal is not afraid of firing people because of poor communication skills.
Republican State Representative Kelli Stargal (FL) has proposed legislation that would mandate teachers evaluate parents on their involvement in their kids' educations. (Sorry I can't provide a link at the moment, but it's on the front page of CNN. Could someone else oblige?)
Any thoughts?
Uhhhh... As a teacher, there is no freakin' way you could ever get me to evaluate a parent. Nope. Nuh-uh. Sorry. And I sure as heck wouldn't want it in return.
Probably no more than I care about what parents think of my teaching
Exactly.
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