I’m thinking a bit of both to be honest.

The bottom-line for me is that because public education relies on public funding then parents and the greater community have every right to know what’s going on in their child’s classroom. If you were to have your child spend five hours a day with a doctor, or dentist, wouldn’t you want to know what’s happening?

The flip-side of course is that parents need to be responsible partners in the whole thing.
What happens in classrooms will get out into the gossip mill….count on it. I also do believe that the majority of parents do understand and are supportive and sympathetic to the daily grind of educators and what they may face from time to time.

One thing that I’ve found is that, guess what?
Teachers are people too and as such fall into the same gossip trap when it comes to parents and kids.

Teachers and parents both need to grow broader shoulders because and instead focus on the common threads that bind us rather than those toxic attitudes that move us further a part.

Parents have arrive on the education scene in Ontario and are being generously supported by their provincial government, so the choice is, either to continue the struggle and to butt heads or to use this time to really break down the communication barriers when ever possible.