MISSISSIPPI BILL WOULD REQUIRE TEACHERS TO GRADE PARENTS

A bill just passed by the Mississippi House, known as the Parent Involvement and Accountability Act, would require teachers to grade parents’ involvement with their children’s education. The legislation, by democratic state Rep. Gregory Holloway, would mandate a section be added to each child’s report card on which the parents are graded on their responsiveness to communication with teachers, the students’ completion of homework and readiness for tests, and the frequency of absences and tardiness. Not surprisingly, the bill has Mary Clare Reim, research associate on education at the Heritage Foundation, saying the bill is the wrong way to encourage more parental involvement. “My initial reaction is, this is absurd,” Reim said. “The concept that parents should be graded by teachers on their involvement is a reversal of what the education system should look like. Parents should be grading teachers on their performance. Putting grades on parental involvement from the top down is not the way this should work.”
* Teachers would have to grade parents on a curve. You could get a D-minus, but if you’re a gun owner, that automatically gets bumped to a B-plus.
* If parents get a failing grade, does it go on their permanent record?
* So this Rep. Gregory Holloway … no kids?
* It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out next time the teachers say they want more money.
* How about this: Teachers do their job instead and leave the parents alone.
* How did an enlightened place like Mississippi ever come up with such a dumb plan?
* Wait until Trump hears about this.
* How would you like to be at the PTA meeting where they float this loser?
* Nice work, Representative Holloway. Any thought to what you’d do after your political career is over?
* PHONE TOPIC: Do any teachers out there think this is a good idea?