The Know Your School Night that I attended was at Forest Grove Middle School on September 20, 2016. We started the night by congregating in the auditorium and listening to the principle address the crowd. He started with a by welcoming the parents and introducing all eight interpreters who spoke languages like Arabic, Portuguese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish and an ASL interpreter. After he introduced the interpreters, he addressed a few things that the school prides themselves on. His biggest point was about safety. He heavily stressed how this school is one of the safest places for the parent’s children and how the administrators don’t sit behind their desks the entire day; they patrol the halls and help the students. For me, this was very
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Johnson’s science class. When I first entered the room, I was still a little focused on what I had just seen in Ms. Steven’s English class. I was worried about the class size and teacher to student ratios. When Mrs. Johnson started talking about her relationship with students, I was kind of encouraged because this is something that I had not seen in the previous classroom that I was in, but when I look back on my experience in Mrs. Johnson’s classroom, I am very discouraged by what she had to say. When she first started talking, I agreed with the points she was making. She talked a fair amount about how Know Your School Night was not as accessible to families who work later shifts or lack transportation, but after that the conversation got rocky. She started explaining how all of her honors students parents had shown up to the nights events but the parents of her ELL students did not. She went on to explain that the parents may not show up because of work or because they do not care about their child’s education. She tried to justify this by explain that the parents are happy with the mediocre jobs they have now and are surviving from that and they don’t see the importance of educating their child if they can also get by with the same jobs. This then caused her to bring up the point that she is like a mother to all of her students. When I look back, I think she really lost my confidence when she said that she deals with the kids …show more content…
I think my interaction with Mrs. Johnson kind of skewed my perception of this night, but I tried my best to look at my experience without that interaction. I liked how when you walked into the school you were greeted by the bulletin board with the honor roll students, the athletic trophies and then the library and auditorium were right there. To me this showed the importance of togetherness within the school. I liked that they took the time to honor different things that their students excel in. The inclusion of parents was also a big thing for me. It seemed like the teachers wanted to make sure parents are involved in their child’s education because both classrooms I was in, the teachers said feel free to reach out if you ever need to have a one on one conference about your child. The final thing that I really appreciated about the school was how the importance of safety was stressed. Nowadays, that is something that is at the forefront of parent’s minds when they leave their child at school. The principal addressing a topic like that right of the bat I think reassured some parents about the topic of safety. Overall, this seemed like a very functional school that honors the parents, teachers and
Johnson’s science class. When I first entered the room, I was still a little focused on what I had just seen in Ms. Steven’s English class. I was worried about the class size and teacher to student ratios. When Mrs. Johnson started talking about her relationship with students, I was kind of encouraged because this is something that I had not seen in the previous classroom that I was in, but when I look back on my experience in Mrs. Johnson’s classroom, I am very discouraged by what she had to say. When she first started talking, I agreed with the points she was making. She talked a fair amount about how Know Your School Night was not as accessible to families who work later shifts or lack transportation, but after that the conversation got rocky. She started explaining how all of her honors students parents had shown up to the nights events but the parents of her ELL students did not. She went on to explain that the parents may not show up because of work or because they do not care about their child’s education. She tried to justify this by explain that the parents are happy with the mediocre jobs they have now and are surviving from that and they don’t see the importance of educating their child if they can also get by with the same jobs. This then caused her to bring up the point that she is like a mother to all of her students. When I look back, I think she really lost my confidence when she said that she deals with the kids …show more content…
I think my interaction with Mrs. Johnson kind of skewed my perception of this night, but I tried my best to look at my experience without that interaction. I liked how when you walked into the school you were greeted by the bulletin board with the honor roll students, the athletic trophies and then the library and auditorium were right there. To me this showed the importance of togetherness within the school. I liked that they took the time to honor different things that their students excel in. The inclusion of parents was also a big thing for me. It seemed like the teachers wanted to make sure parents are involved in their child’s education because both classrooms I was in, the teachers said feel free to reach out if you ever need to have a one on one conference about your child. The final thing that I really appreciated about the school was how the importance of safety was stressed. Nowadays, that is something that is at the forefront of parent’s minds when they leave their child at school. The principal addressing a topic like that right of the bat I think reassured some parents about the topic of safety. Overall, this seemed like a very functional school that honors the parents, teachers and