On Feb 3, 6:36�am, "George" wrote:
wrote in message

ups.com...

My best buddy is a teacher in a disadvantaged district, and believe
me, people like you make his job easy. *Less than 30% of the parents
that make appts. to see him show. *That's right, less than 30%. *The
students that need a parent/teacher/prinicpal conference are not his
star students, and he feels since their parents have sent them to the
school to be raised rather than taking that on themselves (hey... they
just pumped 'em out), the school should get a little help with the
kids. *Most likely source in their unenlightened eyes are the
parents. *Progress reports go unanswered; emails ignored; phone calls
are unreturned.

Yep, the ones who attend conferences are the parents of the kids whose
effort and results are generally the best. *Can't say it publicly, or in the
lounge, which might be wired, *because it's not the position of the NEA, but
over partitions in the john most teachers will confess to believing that
parental concern may be the reason for the kids' positive outcome.

Sometimes it's the village idiot who wants to raise your kids, what?

I have to agree with the intent of the law, but...first, sometimes it
is the village idiot who HAS the kids, and making that idiot attend
teacher/parent meetings or pay a fine they probably don't have the
money to meet is a typical asinine government response.

This is not a matter for legislation. When I was a kid, and belonged
to a Republican organization called Young Americans for Freedom (YAF),
the idea was to keep government out of the individual citizen's life
as much as possible. Today's Republican Party seems to be doing just
the opposite, from education to bedroom.