Supporting High Standards
Parents often complain that teachers don’t have standards any more. They believe that teachers are far too willing to accept student work which is messy and incomplete. They want teachers to insist on quality work.
Most teachers want exactly the same thing. Unfortunately, whenever they demand quality work from students, they immediately have to deal with parents who berate them for being unreasonable. This happens because children don’t like having to redo assignments. The children complain to their parents about how unfair life is and the parents try to rescue them.
The only way we will ever see high quality work from all students in school is for parents and teachers to work together. We need teachers to hand poor quality assignments back to students and insist the work be done properly. And we need parents to support this by agreeing with the teacher and directing their children to sit down at a work table and redo their assignments. Let’s all remember that underachievement is not a child choice; making sure our children don’t underachieve is an adult responsibility. It’s one of the most basic building blocks in the parent-teacher partnership.
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