Parents No Longer Allowed Visiting Their Child's School Unannounced

Parents are no longer allowed visiting their child's school unannounced.

Parents like me are very involved in their children's lives. Whether it is their recreational activities, or their education. We are responsible for their up bringing, and should raise them up in the way they should go. We can not be with them at all times and therefore must sometimes trust that they will be well taken care of by the person assuming responsibility of their care, at the moment. A parent should not interfere with the person who assumes the responsibility, but they should be aware of the obvious, that you can't trust just anybody. So if a parent decides that she wants to pop up at her child's school to make sure that he or she is in good care then a parent should have that right.

Schools and educators use to always encourage the parents to be involved in their child's education. Whether volunteering at their schools, meeting with the teacher to assess his or her behavior, or just by simply poking your head in at the school for a few moments just to see what goes on during the course of the day. These were considered methods to help empower parents to have involvement in their child's educational needs. Those were the days when it was all about the children and not the teachers. Now, parents are in a way being muzzled. Their parental power is being stripped away from them by the Board Of Education who says that parents popping up at the schools unannounced are hindering the educational process; it's a distraction for the teachers. Then on top of that, they now have the right not to take any questions from parents at the Board Of Education meetings. Basically saying they really don't care about whatever concerns parents have. So how did it go from being about the learning and welfare of the students, to the comfort of the teachers?