Sunday, March 16, 2014

Let's Think Outside the Box to Help Our Students in DeKalb


Many of our children in DeKalb County belong to single parent homes and many of these single parents have to work two or three jobs to pay their bills.  As citizens and educators of DeKalb we must help our students by thinking outside the box.  How effective are our parent centers?  They probable are not very effective at all.

 Instead let’s make a contract between the parents, school superintendents/principals, and community members to support a student and his/her parent as an advocate for that student and go online and keep up with the student's achievement and encourage the student to bring up test scores, complete homework assignments, and projects.  This advocate will stay in contact with the parent to develop a support system for their child.

 It just may work and it is something different from what we are currently doing.  Our parents in DeKalb all want their children to be successful.  However, on occasion they are so busy trying to put food on the table that they really do not have time to keep up with their children's progress.



 

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