Immigrant Parents

Learning is a teamwork effort dispersed between teachers, students, faculty, and parents. Furthermore, parents are essential for helping a child with cooperation and continuous motivation. There are many benefits listed in the textbook that involve parent involvement such as: Positive behavior, long-term achievement, conscientious homework completion, increase in attendance, and graduation rates. Additionally, with the interaction between parents and students, it is a lot easier for the teacher to deal with disruptive behavior by gaining an insight to their home life which might indicate why they are acting a certain way (Introduction to Teaching, 336). In addition to the essential parent help, there are two helpful levels that a teacher can …show more content…
Some of those being Educational Rights of Immigrant Children, Students’ Rights in Speech, and Students’ Rights in Dress. There has been major controversy over the Educational Rights of Immigrant Children. However, there is a particular statement that all faculty and future teachers should know that is laid out in the textbook cited from the U.S Department of Education, “All children in the United States are entitled to equal access to public elementary, secondary education regardless of their or their parents actual or perceived national origin, citizenship or immigration status It is educator’s duty to provide fair and adequate, quality education” (Introduction to Teaching, …show more content…
Additionally, Introduction to Teaching, opens up a discussion regarding students and the way that they dress. Likewise, the textbook author(s) asks the question regarding if a student’s dress code is fully covered by the First Amendment. The answer to that question is complex as are most of the student’s rights being discussed in this chapter. Nevertheless, the students form of expression depends on the state and its circuit court (Introduction to Teaching, 276). The dress code itself is split up into two categories, one being the clothing that is prohibited and the other being school uniforms. According to the textbook it states, “Schools have banned clothes, such as tank or tube tops; ripped baggy or saggy pants; pajama tops or bottoms; sweat pants; hats; hooded sweatshirts; and athletic wear associated with local gangs (Introduction to Teaching, 273). All in all, the school will make decisions on dress code based on if the clothing restricts a positive school environment or if its distracting to others on school grounds. As educators or future educators it is important to know the state and local policies regarding dress