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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
What Do Parents Want/Need to Know?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After the grind of last week’s AYP release, we’re focused this week on our back-to-school section. My colleague Mary MacDonald has been assigned to find out what questions parents have about schools and run down the answers.
I’ll get the ball rolling with some examples, and then we would love it if you guys would chime in with some good ones.
I think my child is gifted. What should I do? I am worried that my child isn’t reading. He is a rising first-grader. What should I do? Why do schools start lunch so early? My child has to eat at 10:45 a.m. I want my child to enjoy school, but she can’t even play outside. What’s up with that? My neighbors send their kids to private school and think the public school is terrible. This is just plain not true. What can I do to set the record straight? Why do schools allow boys to wear their pants hanging to their knees and girls to expose their navels?
Okay, you get the picture. Ask away…
