Since I am an educator, I read with interest any articles concerning problems about the education or lack of education of today's youth. The emphasis in many such articles is on teacher accountability. Everyone from the governor to the president wants to keep records on teachers to show progress or regression in student portfolios.
Many teachers strive each day in places labeled as failing schools.
We educators are constantly bombarding ourselves with programs and procedures to see where we have improved or gone backwards. We remediate and remediate and often no amount of teacher intervention seems to help some of our students. It is discouraging to feel that even with all our efforts we can't seem to improve the test scores or discipline of all children. The column by Ron Woodgeard tells where accountability begins. Parent involvement is essential to the success of any education whether it is the drug awareness Mr. Woodgeard wrote about or with math, reading and social skills.