We always hear many complaints from parents that don’t like the way the school dealt with some specific situation, or from schools that say that some parents expect the teachers to raise their children for them. The relation between school and families is delicate, and the modern pressures over both of them do not make it any easier to communicate and reach agreements.
In order to prevent any problems and deal with hard situations, some schools are making the choice to involve parents and families as much as possible in their children’s education. This involvement can happen in many different ways, for example: sometimes the parents have to spend time weekly in their child’s classroom, helping the teacher; sometimes they go to lunch and snack breaks to eat together; sometimes they are an extra helping hand on recess time.
Such a participation is helping families and school to create a bond, to create trust and respect. When the communication between them improves, the actions taken to help the children have better results. Not only the parents can now better understand what the teachers are trying to do, but they can keep on working with the children at home. The children also realize how close the teachers and parents work, and feel more comfortable transitioning between home and school.
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