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26 Feb 08
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And yet, teachers’ complaints about low parent involvement are common, particularly in low-income schools and districts. Where are the parents who don’t show up at open houses? Don’t sign up for teacher conferences? Might as well complain about parents who miss school field trips, aren’t there for the 10:15 a.rn. chorus performance, or available to help with classroom gluing projects.
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regularly urges PTO leaders to avoid the appearance of a clique.
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Accordingly, Crane holds school events at 5:30 or 6 p.m. and provides food, a formula that produces 85 percent to 95 percent attendance among parents.
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25 Feb 08
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he study also points to the critical rolc of nontraditional parent-teacher connections, like the mother who spoke with her child’s teacher at the dry cleaners where the parent worked. Other parents used relatives as stand-ins for school events or to help with homework.
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Schools must make more of an effort to accommodate, or at least acknowledge, parents who work during the day. Weiss, of Harvard’s Family Research Project, said research shows when schools reach out to working parents, many get involve& Just ask Claire Crane, principal of the K-8 Robert Ford School in Lynn, who knows better than to schedule daytime events. “Parents can’t come because they work,” she said. “Most of the low-income families work two and three jobs. We are very aware of that.”
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you don’t work, you don’t gct paid. If you miss a day, it costs you about $200.”
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