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“Legislation: Teachers should grade parents” | Engaging Parents In School...

“Legislation: Teachers should grade parents” | Engaging Parents In School...

“Legislation: Teachers should grade parents”

Valerie Strauss at the Washington Post weighed in today on the crazy proposal in Florida to have teachers grade parents of their students.

Here’s a great excerpt from her piece, titled Legislation: Teachers should grade parents:

Requiring teachers to grade parents is a nutty idea. Some parents work two or three jobs and can’t be as involved as they would like to be, and, besides, teachers have enough to do already.

Even if it were possible to set up a reasonable parent evaluation system, there could be