“Parents Are Our Allies”
‘Education is about preparing young people to make the world better than it is’ is by Pedro Noguera. Here’s what he wrote about parent engagement:
Parents are our allies
But that means that educators need to see themselves as part of the community as well. The educators have to have a vision for how knowledge can be used to address some of those problems. And that means the educators need to know that community.
They need to see their parents as allies; not as their clients, or as a bother. I would say that that’s hard for a lot of the educators because they don’t know those communities, they don’t know how to communicate with those parents. They’re-they’re actually more afraid of the parents than they are of the kids, cause the parents are