ONLY PARENTS Know What's Best For Their Children: A True School Story – The Lid

The news has been filled with reports of parents fighting their schools, school districts, and teachers’ unions on issues such as should schools reopen for live rather than virtual classes, teach critical race theory, should there be vaccine mandates, and/or mask mandates? Along with many other issues.

In too many of these cases, the administrators, school boards, and even teachers fight against the parents trying to have a voice in their child’s education.

When my children were in school, one of the first things my wife and I learned was that parents can’t fade into the background. They need to closely monitor their child was being taught and how they were being taught. Even when an educator had the best of intentions (and most of them do), a curriculum can be based on false facts or in a way that does not understand that each child is unique and has a unique way of learning.  The below is based on something originally written seventeen years ago and is extremely relevant today as parents are being criticized for fighting for their kids to receive the best possible education in the most correct educational environment: