Promt 5: Johnson

Parent involvement is key when students are in school, especially at a younger age most students are always telling their parents if they did well on something. In my classroom my teacher enhances the parent involvement and makes sure that after every quiz or test she sends home a note to each parent. Whether it’s good or bad she sends it so that the parents will see how their child is doing, when they improve she makes note or if they seem to be dropping she makes note of that too. My teacher has told me multiple times about how she wants her students to excel and she feels that all of them will, but she believes in the parents for support.

Although I’ve seen only a couple notes come back from the parents this teacher is persistent to improve all her students’ grades. Also my teacher will not fail, every month she sets up meetings or even over the phone talks so that she can speak to the parents about their child and what they may need help with or just to tell them how well they are doing. She explained to me how it never works out because the parents are too busy, which she understands but she wishes there was more communication.
This leads me too Johnson. Johnson talks about the silence and how those people who are silent and not doing anything are not helping the problem. Although I’m not talking about race I feel privilege is extremely evident. The students in this school don’t have the privilege of their parents being able to come into meetings or talking on the phone to their teacher. The kids in the classroom have said it a hundred times, Mrs. ______ my parents are working or they just can’t come in. Most of these student’s parents don’t have time to meet with a teacher, instead they rely on the word of their child. With silence of the student, parent, and teacher it causes for problems for the student, in this case a lower grade.

Although Johnson mainly talks about race and the privilege of the White over Black or Hispanic I see the privilege these students don’t have, and due to that silence it seems to never prevail. My teacher is trying and she acknowledges that there is in fact a problem; she is trying to speak about what is happening. Although it may take time or not even work, the fact that she is making the effort to say “This isn’t right” is better than nothing at all.