Some Republicans love nanny goverment, too!
Connecticut School District Wants Report Cards for Parents
By Catherine Donaldson-Evans
Foxnews.com
Parents in Connecticut might be the ones getting the report cards if a proposed plan makes the grade at a Manchester public school district.
Steve Edwards, a Republican member of the Manchester Board of Education who’s up for re-election Nov. 6, wants parents to be evaluated on a handful of what he says are objective measures — including if their child does his or her homework or has eaten a good breakfast.
“I tried to design something modest [measuring] things that virtually everybody would agree parents should do to help their kids,” Edwards said. “We don’t have our staff making any subjective evaluations.”
The idea has angered parents, and the local PTA vows to fight the plan.
“People are going to be extremely offended by it,” said Jackie Madore, president of the Manchester Parent Teacher Association Town Council. “I don’t feel the report cards on parental skills is the way to go. … It’s going to be the parents against the Board of Education, basically.”
Edwards says parents aren’t properly preparing their kids for school. He’s proposed evaluations on whether parents get their child to school on time, if they have completed homework each night and if parents attend the twice-yearly parent-teacher conferences about the child’s report card and academic progress.
The other two categories — which Edwards admitted are more a matter of interpretation — would give parents a positive or negative grade on if the child is appropriately dressed for the weather and seems to have been fed an adequate breakfast.
“If a student complains that he or she is hungry and the teacher can hear the student’s stomach grumbling, why? What’s the story? How can we help with that?” explained Edwards, who has 13-year-old and 10-year-old daughters in the district.
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This isn’t the first school district to propose the idea of parent report cards. Chicago tried it — and failed. So did a district in Lebanon, Pa., which wound up broadening the concept into a larger program to get parents more involved.
Edwards, who has been talking about implementing the reverse report cards for the past year, said his policy isn’t nearly as far-reaching as Chicago’s — which graded moms and dads on things like how much quality time they spent with their children. His plan, he said, aims to help parents who need it the most. (more…)
I predict that the following will be proposed in the next 10 years in some school district:
# Free hair cuts
# Laundry care
# Sleeping quarters for students that appear to be too sleepy to concentrate in class
# Free dinner program
# Sex ed classes to include “Best positions 101″
# Free iPhone
# Monetary awards issued for flushing toilet (bonus cash for wiping)
# How to be “Green” in the ghetto
# Open student bars for the underprivileged (virgin drinks standard—-non-virgin with signed permission slip)
# Free Segway for every student
