This meeting was the first step in an ongoing project to explore ways in which the two most important influences on a child parents and teachers can better work together to achieve greater success. While ATPE strongly believes that parental involvement can have positive effects on a child's education, we know that the wrong kind of involvement can be worse than none at all. Parents are unhappy with the grades their child receives.
Parents expect to talk with the teacher every day about their child's program.
Parents have their own ideas about what and how teachers should teach. In any of these scenarios, parents can turn their concerns into a positive experience with their child's teacher, but they can also just as easily turn them into serious problems. To ensure positive experiences, it's important for parents and teachers to understand parents' rights and boundaries within the educational process. For starters, parents have strong but limited rights to be involved and participatory in their children's education. They have no right, however, to disrupt their child's school or monopolize a teacher's time.