How many of you are involved in your child's education?

I am very much involved in my children's education. Teacher and parents should complement each other in educating the child. We as parents cannot leave it all to the teachers. The teachers are there to guide and fill in the gaps since I accept that as a parent I cannot fully teach my children because we too have many obligations aside from family matters- that's why we send them to school. What the students learn in school should always be followed up by the parents at home. There are many times that teachers have also shortcomings in their teaching. I for one is also a graduate of early childhood education and in fact, modesty aside can teach better than my child's teacher, but because of my job (which is non-teaching related) I cannot fully attend to this. I just help in my child's assignment and give or supplement more on the lessons that maybe the teacher has forgotten or mislooked to do or teach. Parents should not just leave to the teachers or school their children's education. Nor should they fully put the blame to the school or teacher if they perceived that their children is 'slow'.

If any parent out there, and I know there are, leave it up to the school and teachers to educate their children, I feel REALLY sorry for those kids. Those kids are going to be left out in a cruel world with absolutely no knowledge, no logic, no ... nothing! I really hate the school system. They do not have the children's best interest at hand. It's a government run scam to make money. Do Not Trust Your School To Fully Educate Your Child 100% NEVER!! And please, please, please, check on what your children are learning. I'm continuously giving my children new challenges and topics to look up. Last summer I made a BIG DEAL over plagirism. My daughter recently had two projects to complete at school. Some of the questions made no sense at all so I decided to research the topic online. Guess what? I found the exact same two projects online from another teacher with the exact same nonsense questions. The teacher just stole someone else's work without even checking to see if it made any sense! Now there was a good lesson in plagiarism and I'm so glad my daughter was there to witness it. I've lost all respect for this teacher! The best thing you can do with your children is read read read and allow them to discover the world first hand with many many different experiences and with different people. Give them the opportunity to discover new things and ask loads of questions. And if you don't know the answer, look it up with them! Show them how to find the answers! Teach your children that there are never enough questions and there are always answers! Teach your children to be nosy and to love learning! And NEVER use the excuse my child doesn't like to read. S/He doesn't like to read because s/he hasn't found what they are interested in. If your child is into sports, find sport related reading material. If your child loves video games, find out how they're made and who came up with such concept. Research the first video games. Compare the graphics. You get the idea! Now go learn something with your child...

My childs education is very important to me. I try to be involved as much as I can. However, my daughter isn't trying very hard to do well in school these days, so I am having to ground her, have her ask for extra credit and so on to help with her getting her grades up. We were going to go home for the holidays and she could visit with her friends from back home, but I have told her that's not going to happen because her grades are coming back down. She brought home her mid-term progress report and everything was B's and C's and now she tells me that she will be getting a D in one of her classes, which is unacceptable. I am not happy with this turn of events and we are going to have to try some other tactics to encourage her to do better.

I am involved in my daughter's education, and I feel that every parent should be. My oldest is only in 1st grade right now, but every night I sit at the dining room table with her and make sure her work is done to the best of her ability. Over time she will need to learn to be more responsible for her own studies, but even then I think it is important for parents to stay on top of what is happening at school.