FOR THE RECORD . . .

I have been posting my history of struggles to promote parent involvement in education for the purpose of showing the long and painful experiences in this cause. Hopefully current parents and parent advisory councils can appreciate our feelings about the restrictive and excluding “colonial” attitudes that hindered parents in their efforts to help their children in schools.

Hopefully, these “colonial” days are over . . .

For the record, please see my post of December, 2006, headlined:

Why is There Resistance to Meaningful Parent Involvement published in Education Advisory #9, December 1979.

Tunya Audain

2 hours later:

“Just say NO to Parent Involvement”

Using Technorati to search for more opinions in blogs on topics of interest, eg., Parent Involvement in Schools, I came across this very interesting and important opinion: Just say NO to Parent involvement. I’m sure you will find it interesting, because PI could actually be a trap to: 1) silence parents, 2) divert them, 3) exploit them, 4) get free labor, 5) etc…..

This parent calls it a government SCAM. What do you think?

http://aftertheball.typepad.com/after_the_ball/2007/10/just-say-no-to-.html