How many parents actually attended Parent Assembly?

[WNYresident]

here is another important topic people don't think about. Parent involvement with their kids education

How many parents actually attended Parent Assembly?

January 4, 2012 - 11:01 AM | 4 comments
At the time, it was hard to tell exactly how many parents showed up in December for Buffalo's first-ever Parent Assembly.
The auditorium at Performing Arts was mostly full the night of Dec. 8, but there were a fair number of administrators, teachers, and interested residents there, in addition to parents.
Officials from the federal, state and local levels lauded the turnout, saying they'd never before seen so many parents gathered within a single district.
The goal, you might recall, was to get a parent from each homeroom in the city. That would have been 1,300 parents, had they all come.

Read the full post in the Buffalo News

One of the people who commented said:

This lack of family involvement is what Buffalo Public School teachers and staff experience and are hampered by on a daily basis. Students who have no one at home able and/or willing to become involved positively in their education create the greatest barrier to improving school success rates.

That is pretty much true. But then again having the union say pay us more it's for the kids will not correct that above issue.

[shortstuff]

On Channel 7 last night they were talking about suspension and how the number of children being suspended had increased and they are looking into different ways of disciplining the students.

Well I can't believe in todays society that they are wondering what to do! It's simple, the students will do whatever it takes to get suspended so they don't have to go to school simple. So do what they did years ago--Self-contained suspension. In school suspension was utilized in the 70's to early 90's and was most effective. You would use a self-contained classroom and these kids would get the help they need like reading, math etc., as well as kept in school. You would see a decrease in suspensions and an increase in academic improvements.

What the district is doing is rewarding bad behavior by giving the kids what they want-- to go home.

[nogods]

This lack of family involvement is what Buffalo Public School teachers and staff experience and are hampered by on a daily basis. Students who have no one at home able and/or willing to become involved positively in their education create the greatest barrier to improving school success rates.

No, teachers who don't know how to teach children who have no one at home able and/or willing to become involved positively in their education create the greatest barrier to improving school success rates.

We aren't going to change overnight the family circumstances of the children in our schools. But we can change the teaching methods, and if necessary the teachers, so that we can educated those children.

First though, we have to e willing to separate our students by their needs, then address those needs.

When an education system banks it success on having someone "home able and/or willing to become involved positively in their education" that education system is unqualified to deal with children who don't meet that model.

If that system won't change then it should be done away with because it is not serving the public by its failure.

[shortstuff]

Also Nogods, in regards to suspensions~~these kids get sent home the question remains, who is there with them? What is the follow up between home base and school base?

I believe the Buffalo school system is broke, it needs a huge overhall. Educators have almost given up since the parents are absentee parents. By bridging that gap it will begin.

[nogods]

Educators have almost given up since the parents are absentee parents. By bridging that gap it will begin.

that's because those educators are unqualified to run or teach in a school system that doesn't have a someone "home able and/or willing to become involved positively in their education."

They need to learn how to teach to the students they do have instead of making excuses.

Out of school suspension never solves a problem, it just puts it off for society to deal with at a later date.

[Genoobie]

that's because those educators are unqualified to run or teach in a school system that doesn't have a someone "home able and/or willing to become involved positively in their education."

They need to learn how to teach to the students they do have instead of making excuses.

Out of school suspension never solves a problem, it just puts it off for society to deal with at a later date.

Yes, agreed. There used to be an alternative school, but that was shut down.