Should teachers grade parents? - The Week
Florida state Rep. Kelli Stargel has introduced a bill that would require public school teachers to grade not only their students, but the students' parents as well. Moms and dads would be judged satisfactory, unsatisfactory, or "needs improvement," based on criteria like their kids' test preparation, appearance, and attendance. "We have student accountability, we have teacher accountability, and we have administration accountability," says Stargel, a Republican. "This was the missing link." Should schools, and parents, embrace the proposal?
No.
Let's pretend we are adults, and get nanny government as far removed as possible.
The 'grading' should be same way as one 'grades' a restaurant, or a dry cleaner....
Vouchers would be the only grade: take the child to which ever school the parent (i.e., adult) decides is appropriate, and apply the voucher to said school.
Consider it 'graded.'
I agree with this, but still think my suggestion is good. Having taught for many years at upper middle to upper class socioeconomic schools, many parents would welcome the connectivity and suggestions, most requiring little or no money, to help prepare their kids for school.
Well educated parents do talk to their children from infancy and read to them too. However, many do not recognize how to prompt toddlers to respond to the foreshadowing and climaxes in a story, which help not only reading and thinking, but later writing.
Many use 'suggested age books' that the children can handle on their own, not realizing that perhaps 'bedtime books' should be more along the lines of chapter or poetry books.
Nearly all of our parents were unaware of connections between chores and work ethic; yes, I am serious. Many of these kids had no chores in middle school, much less as toddlers. Most had cleaning services, including making their beds and emptying trash from their rooms and kitchen. The kids with the most problems were those with no responsibilities and parents that were unavailable-but that is by middle school. All the parents wondered why so many kids were unorganized and forgetful. They were never provided the practice.
You'd not believe the number of kids I've had in school, even subbing, who've been to Wicked, but never to the library. They have books at home, but best sellers from the bookstore. IMO there's nothing wrong with the Vampire books or Harry Potter, but the library allows kids to 'wander' and find things they might not at a Border's, where the tend to wander into the music section, after picking up the popular book.
So many things parents can do, the majority of the 'best and brightest' have parents that know these things, either from the parenting they received or nearly intuitively.
