nooooooooooooooooooooo! oh, the humanity..! :eek:

Do it up. Love this.

I agree with this. While you may be a good parent, there are plenty of others (most IMO) that hardly acknowledge the existence of their kids. They are too busy with their own lives to be bothered by a kid. I would bet that there have times where the teacher would send home a note about a problem and be completely ignored. In this light I would cut out the complaint of your work week. I would focus on why they thing you as the parent are more technically qualified than the teacher to grade the subject matter.

Good idea (involve parents) bad implementation.

If I were you, I would send it and then make damn sure there weren't any repercussions.
Excellent +1
You get an A.

I sent it (with my daughters permission).

That's great, you gotta report the fallout.

Sweet. That's just messed up.

I think you coulda done better, Moses. You are an excellent writer.

I think the teacher will likely just regard this as another data point. Some yawning. My guess is that Moses, daughter is an otherwise good student, and that this score is consistent with the scores awarded to this student by the teacher. And yes, it is likely a stab at getting some parents to become minimally involved in their childrens' education. Either that or the teacher is just a typical, lazy gubmit worker looking for a new way to neglect their already-light workload, as others here have suggested.

I figure the "assignment" is an evaluation of the parents. The teacher is probably looking to see which parents have a realistic understanding of their childs performance. It will also give the teacher a good idea of which parents she will have problems with whenever she give a student poor grades.

Bravo for sending it. Besides, it's halfway through May...how much longer would your daughter have to put up with this particular teacher?

+10!

LAST Friday. :)

I think you should have mentioned a billable rate and asked for an address for where to send the invoice.

Bravo for sending it.

I think the teacher went about this the wrong way. When I taught 8th grade sicence I would have the kids periodically take their science folder, with all of their assignments previously graded by me, home to the parents for quick review and signoff on the front page. So the parents could take an hour or a few seconds to complete this. I could get feedback on both the curriculum and my method this way.

I'll go against the flow of opinion and say it was a good concept (just not too repeatable).
To many parents are completely unaware of what their kids are learning, and need to, to become sucessful in lifes everchanging environment.
Also, back in JHS when we graded each others papers, we learned an element of other's conceptual approaches, qualification of judgment, and the concept of someday being an adult teaching something was quite a needed shock.

If I had the time or inclination to home school my kids, I would do it.

I do not need the public schools to launch their social engineering program in MY family. Truth is, the public schools have demonstrated marginal competence at teaching. I am not ready to let them bring the same degree of expertise into my home family dynamics.

Agreed, but then again few are the exceptions to the rule.

Moses - permission to plagiarize? I shall use all if not certain elements when the time is right.

XXXxcelllenttt...

Always! :D

Moses, what's sad is that the public schools ARE....doing their politically based social engineering. If you wish your child to be a follower of secular humanism, send her to the government schools. If you believe otherwise, proceed at your child's risk. I suggest you do some research on this. I couldn't begin to expose the tip of the iceburg here...