Essay About High School Level And School Systems

Parental Involvement
Parental Involvement
At a high School level, it is more difficult to connect with your
children, and get involved in their school systems. “Although this may be
true, more than ever, the ninth and tenth grade years are when the parents
and teachers need to pull information and insights about their
charges”(Welsh, Patrick 2003). This quotation is very important because
Welsh writes in the article, in the Ninth and Tenth grade are when the
student’s friends made the choices that lead them to the use of Marijuana
and alcohol and minimal efforts in school. An English teacher at T.C.
Williams high School, talks about parent teacher conference day. “What
makes me nervous is the possibility of some parent, usually a mother,
ripping me about their kids grade, and me losing my temper”(Welsh, Patrick,
2003). The English teacher does state, “Even the most painful parent-
teacher meetings benefit the students.” Such meetings are common, and they
are getting increased under the No Child Left Behind Act by President Bush
in 2001. “Even if the meetings with the parents are only 10 minutes, the
time parents take to spend with teachers can have an enormous impact on
their children’s attitude toward learning and success in the classroom.”
Another example of how the parents and teachers can communicate is if there
is a death or divorce in the family to help understand how a great student
can start to go downhill. One of the biggest students in the teachers
class, a 64 monster who sat int the back with the look on his face as if
he wanted to kill the teacher. Through communication with the parent the
teacher understood that it was the student’s inability to understand poems
that were read in the class, while the girls in the class easily understood
the poems. With the information learned from communicating with the parent,
the teacher was able to reach out to the student, and help him with the
poems. “As a parent, I know it is very hard to meet with a teacher.” “Even
the most painful parent teacher meetings benefit the students.
Migrant Students are probably the hardest to reach out to due to the
inability of the parents at school students to speak English. Hillside High
School is one of two public schools that serves it students in Appleton, and
Mexican Americans. The teachers had a very hard time though communicating
with the students parents because they did not speak English. The parents
needed to communicate with the parents because their students were falling
behind in their school work. In fact, only 39% of migrant students
graduated from high school on time. Hillside High School did not stop
though. They knew the importance of having the parents involved in the
school systems with the children, and started the Migrant Education Program,
which was developed for migrant students in order to create a sense of
belonging,