Parental Involvement in Educating Children

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“Unity” of Home & School?

Early in my eldest daughter’s primary school education we went to a parent-teacher evening and her classroom teacher was passing out a poem by elementary principal Ray A. Lingenfelter. The poem, called “Unity,” is posted up on numerous school web sites and given, both by teachers to parents and by parents to teachers.

On the surface it is a lovely expression of the cooperation between home and school, a recognition that both parents and teachers are important people in the development of a young child. It begins:

I dreamed I stood in a studio
And watched two sculptors there,
The clay they used was a young child’s mind
And they finished it with care.

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