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Parents offer
partnership'
for learning
By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Newt Staff Writer
Parents, and how they can help the public schools educate their children or, as an alternative, their right to remove the children from school and teach them at home, dominated last Tuesday’s School Board agenda.
Laurie Marshall and Douglas Baumgardner spoke to the board as representatives of the elementary school’s Parent Teachers Organization curriculum committee. They said they wanted to be involved in improving education at the elementary school and wanted to encourage the school’s efforts to emphasize “problem solving, cooperative learning and interdisciplinary learning.”
Prior to last Tuesday’s meeting the group had sent a letter to the board members and had also sent them copies of a videotape of a Public Broadcasting Service program on “Schools that Work,” that profiled four schools across the country that have been very successful in teaching elementary and middle school students.
“We want the learning and loving in our homes to be transferred to the school,” Mrs. Marshall skid. “We want to be a team with the teachers to make school more creative and positive.” She said that the movement of parents to be more involved in education is spreading throughout the country. “It’s in the air,” she said.
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