This is a team effort. You can't do it on your own and your child can't do it on his or her own. We really need to work together on this. You've taken an important first step by coming tonight and I thank you for that. McCabe encouraged the parents to help their children find a place in their home where they can study, turn the television off, talk to their child's teachers, support the high standards teachers set for their child, encourage their child's participation in ALP, and make sure their child completes homework.
Homework is critical to classroom instruction.
If your child doesn't do homework, they have wasted two days of instruction. The first day, when the teacher instructed it, it went to waste because the child didn't implement it at home. And the second day when the teacher is going over the homework and the child sits there with no homework. For about an hour and a half, they have lost instruction. It's real important that the children try.