PTA: looking back, catching up
63-year-old document stresses importance of parental involvement
- Herald-Leader columnist
Ryland Mullins was cleaning out papers that his aunt had kept when he found a document titled, "What the Teachers Expect of the Parent."
Mullins' aunt, Vivian Breedlove Knight, had taught third grade in Lynch Colored School in Lynch, Ky., for about 17 years before moving to Columbus in 1954.
The document, with 16 highlighted points of expectations, seems to be a part of a future Parent Teacher Association meeting that was scheduled for Feb. 13, 1947.
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