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The topic of partnership with schools must include 'parents as partners.'  The late Tim Russert of NBC's Meet The Press addressed this subject in his book Big Russ & Me:

"It's important to have high expectations of children and young people, and it's equally important to give teachers the authority they need to impose discipline and teach accountability.  I believe that parents of my generation have often failed our kids.  We are so eager to be understanding and sympathetic that we end up being too lenient, even as we further undermine the already diminished authority of teachers, coaches, and principals.

Does this mean that teachers are always right?  Of course not.  But that's how life goes:  sometimes our bosses and supervisors are wrong, or too harsh, and we still have to live by their decisions.  Sometimes umpires blow the call, but the call still stands.

Teachers are-or should be-figures of authority, and they need to know that parents support them.  We love our children, but we do them no favor when we give them the idea, either by word or by deed, that teachers or other adults are not worthy of their respect."

Mr. Russert says it all and when parents become partners everyone wins!

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