Steve Lopez's 'Pushing Parents To Get Involved In Kids' Education

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In "Pushing Parents To Get Involved in Kids' Education", Steve Lopez should have responsibilities to their kid's education. She feels that parents can do a better job for their kids such as provide the early training. She points out that parents need to have some conversation with the teacher about their kid behavior in class because they need to make sure that their kid need to have As and Bs for transfer to college.She thinks parents need to spend a little bit of time to keep track their children is they need help or not. And also she thinks that parents need to check out their child's assignment,email from a teacher, and have some field trip to college instead for the zoo.

One reason that I agree with Steve Lopez is parents

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