A local board of education wants to start grading parents. How do you feel about this? How would you grade yourself, if you have school aged children?
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Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger
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This should have been done a LONG time ago!!! Teachers/schools are not responsible for raising children... and the primary reason why children get failing grades is BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS DON'T HELP THEM!
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I can see the pros and cons to both sides of this argument. Pros: Parents are held accountable for their children's behavior. Therefore more discipline is established in the home that then carries over into the school. If children are made to sit down and do homework/study instead of play video games or hang out w/friends, then their grades go up. Cons:Some parents try very hard but their children misbehave anyway. This can be especially true if the child is LD. If the parent is doing everything he/she can to help the child but the child still misbehaves then it should not be held against the parent. Some parents have to work so much to make ends meet that they cannot be there for their children and end up being "punished" by the system.
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That's the worst idea I've ever heard. I understand that it's getting more difficult to get families involved with education but this is going about it the wrong way. What would be the criteria and who would monitor this? How could they control a smart-aleck kid who lies. This could have damaging consequences. What if some child makes up things and portrays a good family as abusive, etc. Youth and Family Services could be called and a family suffers for no reason other than some stupid kid who doesn't know any better. I've actually seen this happen. My co-workers 9 year old son wanted to go to a concert and his parents said no. He told the school teacher that his parents abuse him and the state social services got called. They had to go through 6 months of investigations and screenings because of a lie. (They did get cleared after he confessed). As far as grading myself, all 4 of my daughters are A students with many friends and are involved in sports and music study. They are happy, healthy and loved. They tell me I'm the greatest mom in the world and that's all that matters.
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That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. The school system in America is so f*ked up they can't keep track of the children... how can they have any right to "grade" parents they often never meet? Just one more attack of the government on the family unit. Next kids will be required to leave their families for boarding schools at five years old to be returned at 18. It's all for "their own protection" of course.
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I think they should feel free. Of course, I also know that attempts to "grade" the school/teachers hasn't resulted in any smashing improvement in the education system. But, by all means, let all the adults get together for a rousing game of tit for tat while little Johnny and Susie get dumber and dumber.
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They already do grade parents. The grades the children get are also grades of the parents. If my kid gets straight A's then I am an A parent. If my kid flunks the year I am an F parent.
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