We have to set the expectation. The memo and the subsequent meetings are just one example of Rogers' proactive approach to home-school relations. But support for student achievement is the school's first parent-involvement priority. If we get the parents to buy into education, then we've got the ticket. And Moore says that when it comes to student support, it's impossible to predict parent behavior based on socio-economic factors.
Some parents are in a better position to help their kids with school work and so forth.
But when it comes to caring, that cuts across all the demographic lines. And then she made it clear she was going to make me sit down and do an hour's worth of something that had to do with school, whether it was homework or not. Moore required students to attend part of the meeting with their parents. I had them sit together and write improvement goals in the kids' student planners. Which is fine with me.