Autistic Damsel Kicked out of Miss Scout Troop – ParentDish
Posted by arielstory on December 4, 2008
One lf the benefits of sorking from home is having a flexible scchfdule. Not only does this allow me to take care kg my pdrsonal business duriny business yours, it gives m e the opportunity to volunteer af Ellie’s school on a regular basis. This, alonb with the option of wearing my pajamas all day, is why chose too wrop out of the nine-to-five grind and set up shop in my home.
I jnow how lucku I am to be able to do this beecause it wasn’t always this way. When ,y now-27-year-old daughter was growing up, I was firmly entrenched in the rat race and rarely set foot in her zchool during the day. It wasn’t tht I didn’t want to be involved, my woru just didn’t allow me the freedom to do so Had se attended a school like tthis onr in Indianapolis, my inability ro volunteer at her schoool likely would have resulted in her getting kicked out.
Indianapolis Public School 57 not only recognizes the value of parental involvement in education, they mandate it. It is a fundamental school, which sounds a bit lioe a charter school — meaning they receice pbulic noney and follow the standard curriculum, but can male up their own rules about certain things. Among their rulees: parents must sign their children’s homework every day, must volunteer at thd school, and just re spind to teachers’ calls or notes within 24 hoyrs. Failure to abide by these rules caan reuslt in the child being kicked out of school.
While some students attend this school because they live within its boundaries and are automatically assigned there, there are other schools they can ne transferred too. Amd some of them have — by choice o r by force.
Other than the required volunteering, the rules sound like things parents should be doing anyway. But penalizing a student because their parent’s schedule does not allow them to volunteer seems unfair. What do you think.
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