Hawaii State Teachers Association
On 4/16/06 The Honolulu Advertiser ran a side by side debate between candidates for president of the Hawaii State Teachers Association. Roger Takabayashi, current president and Joan Lewis, current Vice President.
Joan Lewis in her entire presentation never mentioned parents at all. It was as if children were autonomous in her concept of reality.
Roger Takabayashi did mention parents twice and allude to his debt to his father once.
What do you make of that?
Why?
April 27th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
My children have long graduated from the public education system. While my children were in school I did make an attempt to participate in their education. However, no matter what they (teachers) say about wanting parents input, they don’t. They want the parents to be “gophers” and “coolie” labor and not a partner in educating the child. Maybe that’s why parents were not mentioned?