You've packed the Rugrats lunch box, even including a mushy note that will embarrass your little one in the best possible way. As you walk your child to the front door of school for the first time, you've done everything in your power to make sure he'll start first grade with every advantage.
Most schools have time built in for such meetings.
Create an agenda for that meeting . Follow up with a second visit at mid-year or sooner if there seems to be a problem. If there seems to be a gap in parents' expectations and the teacher's agenda, it also provides the opportunity to do something about the situation before it becomes a real problem. Fuhr says if parents and teachers have a very different vision of education, it might require asking the principal to transfer the child to another class. Parents need to take this responsibility of monitoring teachers very seriously, because unfortunately many schools do not.