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Why Some Parents Don't Come to School?
They expect me to go to school so they can tell me my kid is
stupid or crazy. They've been telling me that for three years, so why should I
go and hear it again? They don't do anything. They just tell me my kid is bad.
Teachers just don't understand that I can't come to school
at just any old time. I think Judy told you that we don't have a car right
now.... Andrew catches a different bus than Dawn. He gets here a half an hour
before her, and then I have to make sure Judy is home because I got three kids
in three different schools. And I feel like the teachers are under pressure,
and they're turning it around and putting the pressure on me cause they want me
to check up on Judy and I really can't.
I do not understand why they assume that everybody has tons
of money, and every time I turn around it's more money for this and more money
for that. Where do they get the idea that we've got all this money?
It's her education, not mine. I've had to teach her to take
care of herself. I work nights, so she's had to get up and get herself ready
for school. I'm not going to be there all the time. She's gotta do it. She's a
tough cookie.... She's almost an adult, and I get the impression that they want
me to walk her through her work. And it's not that I don't care either. I
really do. I think it's important, but I don't think it's my place.
Parents feel like the teachers are looking at you, and I
know how they feel, because I feel like that here. There are certain things and
places where I still feel uncomfortable, so I won't go, and I feel bad, and I
think maybe it's just me.
Whenever I go to school, they want to tell me what to do at
home. They want to tell me how to raise my kid. They never ask me what I think.
They never ask me anything.