Shouldn't bringing up and educating children be a shared process between home and school? If schools don't engage with parents they disengage and become resentful. If parents don't engage with schools they feel like they're banging their heads against a brick wall. Does this do our youngsters any good? Not so much. It is upto schools to lead the way in this partnership as they are the professional base at which all your kids come together. Having a three way agreement is in no way about setting standards for parenting but a suggestion of ways in which they can provide support for each other (and support sometimes looks a bit like challenge). I find it interesting that on the one hand some of these threads go on about a waste of resources. Why don't you think about the waste of energy you've expended going on about it and how you could have used it positively to help your kids!
