Those unspoken attitudes make many
parents feel unwelcome or unequipped to get involved.
And she scheduled regular coffee chats with families, where she learned that
parents felt unwelcome at the school.
Not exact matches
Many
parents feel bombarded by
unwelcome criticism and judgment, from family, friends, professionals, even society at large.
(Many adult adoptees say they had these thoughts but
felt afraid or
unwelcome to share these somewhat scary and unsettling thoughts with their adoptive families because they did not want to hurt their adoptive
parents and / or seem disloyal. -RCB-
A Dozen Activities to Promote
Parent Involvement Many
parents say that they
feel unwelcome or uncomfortable in their children's schools.
Many
parents say they
feel unwelcome or uncomfortable in their children's schools.
Despite a
feeling from some
parents that their perspective is
unwelcome, he notes «we're on the same side.
No amount of strategic planning or performance evaluation or project - based curricula can succeed in a school where kids don't
feel good about themselves, their class, or schoolmates, where their teachers just punch a timesheet rather than inspire in their students a hunger for intellectualism and learning, where
parents feel disconnected or
unwelcome.
They talked of
parents who
feel unwelcome in the school building, and of
parents who
feel the teachers and school leaders pass judgment on them.
This perception varied greatly by ethnicity, however; Hispanic
parents (26 percent) were much more likely to
feel unwelcome than whites (8 percent) or Asians (8 percent), and somewhat more likely to
feel unwelcome than blacks (16 percent) or Native Americans (17 percent).
One woman said families
feel unwelcome in the schools: «A
parent comes in and the secretary says, «What's wrong?
After hearing that English language learners were
feeling marginalized and
unwelcome, he wondered if he should dedicate a staff meeting to discussing their experiences; provide cultural proficiency training to the entire staff; or reach out to
parents for help.
Sometimes LGBT youth are abandoned by their families, or they run away from home because they
feel unwelcome or abused after telling their
parents they're gay.