I am going to add principals and vice principals into the teacher
category, since they too are part of the education process.
The following is a excerpt from article titled “Trusting Teachers Is a Means to Authentic
Parent Engagement”:
“Would trusting teachers with authority to collectively make
the decisions influencing school success be at odds with authentic parent
engagement? I can see how, from some points of view, the language suggests yes.
The idea can easily come off as "just trust the educators, and save the
families from themselves!" Indeed, there are people who have, at first
glance, interpreted the idea that way.
But trusting teachers can be a promising means to parents becoming integral to
the inner workings of our schools”.
Teaching in the U.S is one of the only professions I can think of
where non-professionals can or feel they can tell teachers what to do and what
they are doing wrong. The respect it gets is not equal to what it should get (and
that is as far as I will go on this subject less I digress too far).
Teachers however, are not perfect because they are human. Teachers
also sometimes make the mistake of not authentically including parents into the
education of children. Authentic to me does not mean simply telling the parents
that: your children will learn this and this is what they are expected to
learn, it means that teachers and parents are genuinely engaged in the curriculum,
and in the outcomes throughout the school year. It means that parental concerns
are addressed not dismissed, for the administrators it means that they are
making every effort to meet with parents when requested. Administrators are
often called to district meetings, but their primary role should be school
leadership, working with the families and fostering positive relationships
within the community. Districts let your administrators spend time on campus.
It really does take a village.
Dr Flavius A
B Akerele III
The ETeam
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