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Originally Posted by 1stindoor
An interesting approach...although hardly novel in its concept, if you consider the "village" as the money garnered through taxes to support education. However, my anecdotal evidence suggests the most important "leg" of that stool will have to be the parents. The best teachers in the classroom still have only a limited amount of time with the student. The parents, grandparents, step parents, foster parents, etc. have a much larger block of time in which to influence the child to the importance of an education.
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I would have to agree. From experience within my own family, with my kids. All 4 of my kids went through the same schools with the same teachers, for the most part. The youngest is an outstanding student in all honors classes. Her 2 brothers and sister were all lucky to graduate. What was the difference? Parental involvement.
The oldest 3 are technically my step kids. They lived in their mother's house during their formative years. She did not value education, because her parents didn't, and so on and so on. It was easier to lable them special needs than it was to.sit down with them every night to.do the homework, to show up in the classroom to help out etc. So they all struggled. Carl wasn't around enough due to deployments to make much difference. So he is at fault as well to some extent.
When Jake came to live with us when he was 15 he was doing third grade English. I just about lost my mind. We both showed up in his clasroom on a weekly basis to help out. We had weekly meetings with his teacher. We fought to get him mainstreamed as much as possible. He would get mad at me because I was pushing him so hard. I told him it was about.damn time someone did. When he graduated high school he was mainstreamed into 3/4 of his classes. He actually was able to go to college.
Jordan learned to read when she was 3 1/2. She was living with my parents at the time due to my remote. They valued education, which in turn made me value it. They helped in her classroom, they went on fieldtrips etc... When I got back to the States I did the same. I have never had to ask that child if her homework was done.
You can have the best teachers in the world, but if the parents don't care, it doesn't matter. Conversely you can have the shittiest teacher in the world and a very involved parent. That parent is going to ensure their child is taken care of. If it means changing classrooms, if it means being in the classroom more to be able to speak of first hand knowledge to the administrators, moving to a new school, etc... PARENTS are the key to a child's education