Thursday, January 27, 2011

Teachers grading parents?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/26/florida.grading.parents/index.html

Read the attached article.  Do you think it would be a good idea for teachers to grade parents? Why or why not?

20 comments:

  1. I dont think it would be a good idea because most of the time parents want their kids to do good in school but some kids just dont listen. Also some parents might have different expectations and standards that they want their kids to have that might be completely different from what teachers expect. If you have teachers complaining to parents they might think your just singling them out and they would get mad.

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  2. I think it would be a good idea, because it would get the parents more involved with their childs education. It may encourage parents to be more helpful. It may push them in the right direction if they feel they are being evaluated.They might not even realize that they arent helping their children enough.The grading would help give them something to work at, and it would help them to make connections to their children,because they would both be getting a grade. Some parents might not care for the idea of being graded but so what, if they fail its not like they can really flunk anything.

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  3. I think it is a good idea and could help the educational system if it's taken seriously. Parents play a major role in their child's education, so if they take this seriously then they will become more involved with their childrens school work. If the parents spend time with the kids doing this the kids may also feel more appreciated and work harder in school with the thought of excelling for their parents. Although it has been proposed for K through 3rd grade, the parents involvement would most likely carry on in later years of the child's education, which would help maintain a more stable educational system.

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  4. I don't think grading parents is a good idea. Yes parents should help their kids with their education but sometimes parents try with their kids but the kids just don't cooperate. So a parent could be trying to help the child out but they might not listen then the teacher will give the parent a bad grade when it's not even their fault. Also some kids can catch on to things right away and others need more time so it's not always the parents fault for the children that fall behind in school.

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  5. I think it's a good idea and it could help improve a child's educational life. A parent has a major impact in their child's life. If parents would help their children with homework, children would realize that their parents care how they do and will support them. The children would start trying their best because since their parents began helping they would feel more appreciated and want to make them happy as well. The three criteria that the grading is based on are important things to instill in kids' lives whether it had to do with a grade or not. As for the parents who don't like the idea, it doesn't really effect their relationship with their children or how they raise them. If the teachers would grade the parent "unsatisfactory" it wouldn't effect their kids' grades or their personal lives if they chose not to participate.

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  6. Ultimately grading parents would not be a good idea because the ones that do not succeed are the ones that do not care. Some parents have different rules and expations for their children which most often times leads to how well their child does in school. But what it comes down to is that parents can parent how they want. If their choice is not to help their child with school work that's their choice and the teacher should keep their nose out of a parents buisness and do their job. Enough said.

    -Eli

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  7. I do not think teachers should have the right to grade parents...one reason being teachers play favorites and if they do not like a certain child they will automatically down grade their parents. Or vise-versa.
    Parents can choose their amount of involvment and sadly many parents are not so involved. That's their choice. Parents with busy jobs arnt that free to help.
    So no, I do not think teachers should grade parents. It's the teachers job to teach and parents job to support if they can. They should but do not always have time.

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  8. I think that grading parents is a bad idea. Telling someone they are a bad parent isn't the best thing to do. For example, if you told a single parent that they are a bad one because they don't sit and read with their child, there could be nothing they could do. With the economy the way it is they may have to work two jobs to support their children. And then it is not their fault they can't be home all the time to help. And tutors are there for a reason, if the child needs help in something they can have a tutor help them at school.

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  9. I think it could be good but bad too because not all families are the same. Some parents don't do anything but their kids are still smart, and some parents try with their kids and yet they still don't understand what they're doing.

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  10. I think it is a bad idea because it might cause more issues between parents and teachers. It would also be hard to grade parents because if their kid is stupid then that might not be the parents fault.

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  11. I could see it being good in theory because kids who have parents that are active in their education have such an advantage over kids without active parents. So much of what is learned can be supplemented by what the child knows going into school and what they learn between days in school. A childs development extends far beyond the classroom setting. However, this could cause conflicts between teacher and guardians because being told you are inadequate as a parent can be very demeaning.

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  12. I think teachers grading parents is a really bad idea. Every family is different, and there is no way to control it. You cant slap a grade on someones way of life, its not right to. children do grow and develop along with what they see, and not every parent can sit at home to create all the same opportunites.

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  13. I think it would be a good idea, but don't think it's possible because I don't think you could get enough people behind it to take off. Parents should be active in their kids lives to prepare them for the future. Teachers can teach kids but if they don't bring that home and have parent involvment they're not getting as good an education as someone with active parents that help their kids.

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  14. I apologize. But i honestly think that it is a Terrible idea that will not succeed. I see how it may help the entire outcome of a human beings ability to cope with the SCHOOL, but its just anotherway to get a control on the people. Its completley reduculas the way it is with all this stupid lopped crap. If your late to class a few times you have to hand over your paycheck. Well howabout you just dont get the knowlege you were spose to. NOPE A FINE! they try and try but then what happens when your 18. They still force you to go? NO. they've badgered you to do something you dont want to do at all leading you to only want to DO THE OPOSITE OF WHAT THEY SAY. You cant FORCE. I hate this School so much because of the stuff going on latley. It makes me want to go to the alternitive school. But oh well, I follow every one of your pathetic rules and pet peaves which are COMPLETLY MADE UP. The thing that gets me the most is that people Try to control you. EVERYONE IS EQUAL AND HAS THEIR OWN OPINION. IF YOU WANT TO FAIL GO AHEAD>! IF NOT... BAM!! What im saying is either way, if a student chooses to "DISOBEY" the SYSTEM they will fail in the end inevitabley. Its STUPID to try to control that aspect of reality. STUPID. Stop. Stop now please. Let us go to the bathroom during elt. your body has spacific and important functions for distributing waste. If you do not do this you can get many different terrible medical issues down the road.

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  15. stop spending it on prisons and city bulding such as police stations and courts and all the big buldings city owned probably wondering wat happens to the people who would be goin to prison (baby rapers and bank robers) and anything else depending on severity line em up and shoot em

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  16. Although I think a parent's role in their child's education is extremely important, I don't think this would be a great idea. It doesn't have to do with parents not having the time... or the idea not being backed up by the system... Mainly, I don't think it would work because a lot of parents are just ignorant. If they aren't going to help their child in school in the first place, is it really a good idea to 'grade' them? I think that would only cause an outbreak of annoyance. My idea of a better approach would be to use other forms of motivation. Schools need to get parents more involved in their curriculum. How do they expect them to get involved, if they don't even know what's going on? You can't expect a child to want to actually have a conversation about what their learning in school...

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  17. I think it would be a good idea. Parents say that it just should be the teachers and schools jobs to teach their kids and they probably dont't know anything about what is going on in school with their kids. It would get parents much more involved with their kids, which I think is very important for their kids. Although it would probably cause a lot of controversy between parents and teachers, I think in the long run it would help because then parents wont depend so much on the school system to teach their kids only.

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  18. I think that idea is ridiculous I think that a busy parent can't be expected to always help the child. We pay money every year for a teacher to educate the children. Now all of a sudden its a parents fault? This whole idea is ludacris.

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  19. i think its a great idea my parents suck my ma dusnt ever listen my dads not even in my life anymore so id like to see there grades hahaha

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  20. i dont think it would be a good idea to grade parents. it would cause a lot of conflict between the teacher and the parent if the parent was told that he was rasing his or her child wrong.

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