Re: Letter to the editor, Parents Key Factor, Not Poverty.
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The writer, APS Administrator Phil Ewing, claims 30 years of experience in the APS. He wrote in response to a letter from APS Deputy Superintendent of Something or Another,
Dickie Gallegos.
Gallegos had argued that poverty is the cause of poor student performance.
Ewing argues, it is not poverty, but parents who play the key role. Ewing concludes;
"I challenge the parents of all our public schools to participate in your children's education, volunteer at your school, and support your child throughout their high school years and you will see "academic success" as your child evolves through his or her high school years."
APS' Plan A: take parents whose lives are overwhelmed with all manner of personal obstacles and calamities; and turn them into wonder parents who will stay up late helping their kids with homework and then, get up early to go volunteer at school.
The "parenting" dynamic is far to complex and untenable to affect. It is a waste of time and effort to try to change it. It is delusional to even suppose that you could.
Plan A did not work yesterday, it will not work today,
and will not work tomorrow.
Students will get it done, or not,
based on what happens at school.
All Plan A is good for, is filling another floor
in the Uptown Administrative Complex
with with good ole boys claiming to be
parent involvement "experts".
1 comment:
What a noronic statement he made about poverty and intelligence.
Sure, poor kids do have a correlation to dropout and not going to college...DUH! College costs a lot!
However, I have taught many poor kids that went on to become engineers, teachers, social workers and even doctors.
MAybe this moron should look at the bottle not being 40 oz empty, but 40 oz full?...REDNECK!
--An APS Instructor
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