Category Archives: Parent Involvement in Schools

Cease and Desist (C&D) Letters to Parents

  Sometimes parents are seriously discouraged from pursuing complaints or criticism through receipt of cease and desist letters from a School Board, teacher union, or other public service union related to schools.  Here is an interesting article:   http://www.parentseduchoice.org/links/Article%20-%20Canadian%20Family%20-%20Goliaths.pdf Goliaths … Continue reading

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Privacy in the Internet Age

  On July 30/09 I saw this interesting interview with the host on CNN with Kyra Phillips:   education-advisory.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/privacy-in-the-internet-age-cnn-090730.pdf   It relates to parent rights and duties and student rights.    

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Parent Rights a Top Priority for Education Responsiveness

  How well parents exercise their rights determines what degree or quality of services they get in public schools.  It is quite different in independent or private schools as there the customers are usually treated as paying customers.  So, how … Continue reading

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On visiting this site…

On first coming to this site please be aware:  1. ARCHIVES I'm using this site to gather, record, sort, etc. tons of archive material I’ve gathered regarding the struggle for effective parent involvement in education. Much of the material relates to … Continue reading

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Parent Volunteers Resent “Scab” Label

Jan 5/83, North Shore News, North Vancouver, BC, Canada (Continuing to archive past education struggles to inform current struggles … ) That was the front page headline of a story by Bill Bell, the story continues …  “Union intimidation”: is … Continue reading

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