Posted in Motivating and Organizing Kids, Partner with Teachers, Uncategorized on May 14th, 2013
I didn’t realize how disorganized my fifth-grade son, Garth, was until his teacher told us about multiple uncompleted assignments he had. He enters middle school this fall. She’s urged us to work with him on getting his act together this summer, but how?
This teacher gets a “C” for flagging the problem (”better late than [...]
Posted in Partner with Teachers on Apr 12th, 2013
Since my son was in kindergarten, I’ve communicated with his teachers and volunteered in class. He’s now in fourth grade and resisting my involvement. He’s doing well. Should I back off? I don’t want to be a helicopter mom.
Unless you’re doing his homework, laying out clothes for him each morning, and taping a note to [...]
Posted in Partner with Teachers on Sep 14th, 2009
Our school has deep budget cuts, so my wife and I decided to volunteer this year. We called our son’s school to ask how we could use our skills. (We’re both engineers.) The school secretary told us to help the PTA fund-raise. Selling cookie dough wasn’t what we had in mind. We’d like to mentor [...]
Posted in Partner with Teachers on Mar 30th, 2009
I am out of work and want to volunteer as a mentor at the local high school. When I contacted the principal with a summary of my business skills, she said they’d call if they had a need but she didn’t sound encouraging. My wife says schools worry about child safety and lawsuits. I see [...]
Posted in Partner with Teachers, Vacation Plans and Projects on Mar 23rd, 2009
The winter’s been brutal so we’re taking our kids to Hawaii over spring break. Because it’s so far away, we are going for three weeks. Our children will miss eight days of school. For my daughter’s kindergarten teacher it was “no biggie” but my son Josh’s third-grade teacher got cranky when I asked her to [...]
Posted in Partner with Teachers on Mar 16th, 2009
The economic crisis has adversely affected our wonderful elementary school. Morale is low, teachers are being cut, parents are bickering, and the administration isn’t communicating. A few of us want to start a charter school, but our PTO president says we’re “dreaming.” Isn’t there money in the stimulus bill for charter schools?
The House-Senate conference committee [...]