I thought, as I watched this program, wouldn't it be wonderful if there really were active parents around every school in Chicago who could come in, when able, and help teachers in their classrooms. Help with children who needed special attention or they would disrupt the class for everyone else, help with nurturing individual children, help with all the little things a teacher has to do in a room with 30 some children for five or six hours a day that take away from time for teaching. I think the idea of bringing parents into the schools, and really making the school a center of community, is a great one. But teachers and parents don't always know how to reach their own potential. I teach Math.
Parents are responsible for values, moral, religious, and even political training.
I am paid to work with students academically. Anne Northrup and Margie Newman. They will still be writing under my name. We do that at the middle school level. Our kids come in never really wanting to learn and they also bring a lot of excess baggage.