Parents Day

It's the parent's responsibility to keep track of their child's activity in school ESPECIALLY if the child is having trouble coping with their studies. A child like this needs more attention more than any other child who is already doing good. Every child should be supported by their parents. Attending the parent's day is one of it.

I work in a pre-k classroom and we just had our parent day and at least one parent for each child showed up (we have 21 children in the morning and 22 children in the afternoon). We had fun things planned and the children LOVE to show their parents what they do at school. The children AND parents had a BLAST! Parent Day also gives parents the opportunity to meet the teachers who are in the classroom face to face and to have parent/child time doing fun activities. Parent involvement is important to a child's success, and if that means attending Parent Day, just remember that you are doing this more for your child and what it means to them than you are for you.

I think it's just a waste of time.. lol =D During my days as a student, there's also parents day.. ANd that will usually be the time whereby they will collect our 'report book' at the end of semester or yr.. From there, our form teacher will be talking to my parents about my performance in schoo, and my results etc.. But most of the time, only my mom will turn up, never my father.. Other than that, parents will be talking among parents, comparing, and talking about us.. lol =D And whenever they talk, only those bad things of us will be said and that we will sort of become 'spy' for each other so that our parents can call each other to verify about the things we said and done.. lol =D Thus, i never like parents day..

I like parents day and try to go into the school to see/read whenever the school askes, I feel it is omportant to the children

My husband is a teacher, and he finds the parents he WANTS to see don't ever bother turning up. The parents of the students without any problems turn up - because they want to hear good things about their children - which is nice and warm and fuzzy, but it would be more beneficial if the parents of the children with issues turned up and were willing to help their child get back on track.

Hello ronaldinu For me I think parent/teacher meetings are very important and I have failed to miss one yet. I want to know exactly where my children are at, at school and to pass on any concerns I may have. I get annoyed with my eldest son's teacher because he rarely writes in my son's diary only if I have asked a specific question will he answer and he writes the odd comment. I appreciate the time my kid's teacher's have given up to spend with me to discuss my child with me. What are parents teachin their kids by not turning up?

The parents that have the priviledge of attending these functions is great. I go to grandparents day or breakfast when it is offered for us to do so. It gives the childrena a chance to show off their room, friends, and work they have done. There are many things that go on in the class that we are not privy to, this gives us a chance to go to an open forum and see things for ourselves. Teaches may see it as an inconvience. The children, parents, and grandparents see it as a time to spend seeing the invironment of the children that they have to see everyday. We get a further chance to speak to teachers and friends of the children. Ye,s we have the daily and weekly reports and we respond to these. The visits to school is another time to see what the children are doing and we welcome it.

I think it is important. I feel it benefits the parent most of all. Children really don't care, but even if it doesn't prove to bring about new news for the parent or teacher, at least the lines of communication will be open, like you mentioned. And when a problem does arise, maybe parents or teachers will feel more comfortable addressing it because they have been able to relate with each other in the past.

Hi ronaldinu, It appears that you have the same problem with parents as I've observed here. The parents that you really need to talk with rarely turn up at such times. I still believe that parents day is a good thing because it does keep the lines of communication open. Blessings.

I think that Parents Day is very beneficial for the parents as they can get to know how their child is behaving in school and how they are learning, it does help the parents but the ones who don't turn up to me seem irresponsible in the fact they don't want to know what is happening with their child and it is a crying shame...littleowl

It was the same way when my boys were in school--the students that did poorly had no parental participation and the parents of good students always showed up. Hello, parents!! Does this tell you anything?! My boys' school even sent out a notice before parent-teacher conferences citing this statistic and you know what they got? Complaints. Parents were complaining that the school was singling them out and blaming their childrens' poor performance on them instead of the teachers who obviously weren't teaching very well! I think parenting classes should be mandatory in school, starting in 7th grade. Maybe a half hour a week at that age and by the time a child is in 11th grade the class should be mandatory twice a week with live, fussy babies (and their patient moms or dad) in attendance! Maybe if they would do this, we could improve parenting-and have happy children-in a generation or two.

I agree with you. The parents who are involved and show up are usually the parents of the kids who excel, BECAUSE the parents ARE involved. I wish that there was a way to make it mandatory for all parents to be involved. I was always involved. I even did a lot of volunteer work at my kids' schools and they did well in school. Both were always honor students.

I think Parents' Day has always been an excellent idea. Not only to keep bad behavior in check, but, to encourage and give approval to the child. I think it's sad when most parents don't show up. It makes sense that the parents who don't show up have children who aren't doing so well in school because the parent isn't showing an active interest in the child's development. My parent's never took an active role or interest in my schooling and I suffered a great deal because of it. Overall, I do believe that Parents' Day is very beneficial. Purrs, Catwoman=^..^= & Mija

In my opinion, Parents Day is necessary and essential. Communicating among students,teachers and parents is very important is nowadays. From this ways, the teacher and parents can exchange the opinion on how to guide the children. And the childern can learn how to understand teacher and parents, and hehave best.

You are right - but it is important. It is very difficult to communicate properly with teachers by reports and quite often the teachers write bland comments or even copy and paste comments into multiple kids reports. They do not even know the children. This is one way of ensuring they put a face to a name. Yes it is true that the worst parents are least likely to attend - often they do not care about the kids. Sometimes the timing is impossible - my son's school for example now hold parents evenings at 3:30 to 5pm so discriminating against working parents, mainly fathers. It is only once per year - not a lot to ask the teachers o work late for a change! I believe in MORE communication between the school and parents not less. As my son's head teacher said - this should be a 3-way partnership - she has not kept up her side of the agreement. It is even worse for separated parents - the school often only communicate with one parent - the primary carer normally the mother. They do not seem to realise that children have and need TWO parents!