How involved are you in your child’s learning?

I so admire Tim Milburn for this: An Open Letter To Teachers

How can you be taking a more active role in your child’s life at school? Please share what you do, for the benefit of all who are parents in our Ho‘ohana Community, just as Tim did.

Tim also asks,

• Do you create opportunities for people or put obstacles in the way of people?
• What would you use to judge whether or not a student is capable of running for a student leadership position?

I look forward to your comments,
~ Rosa Say

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Tim Milburn is also one of our contributing authors here on Joyful Jubilant Learning. This was the posting he had written for our JJL Make A Difference 2007 forum: Help! I Can't Learn Anything Because I'm Disinterested. 

Comments

[tim]

Hi Rosa:

Thank you for picking this up and placing it on JJL. There is so much back story to this whole thing. Yet in the midst of the frustration, meetings with teachers, and encouraging our daughter - we got to have so many good conversations about leadership and BEING the right kind of person.

Once again, the difficult situations in life have a lot to teach us if we'll only take the time to reflect and think about them. Ultimately, my daughter is stronger and better through this. That's a good thing.

[Rosa Say]

I figured there was more Tim, doubly why you are to be commended! If every parent had a fraction of the interest and involvement that you have in our schools I doubt we’d be in many of the predicaments faced by education today.

In addition, just as is happening with your daughter, we'd be raising our children to be stronger, more resilient and confident for when their times to take leadership do happen - as one day, they inevitably will.