I’d like to give you guys, another story from that imaginary class i told you before (read part 1).
At school, we allow parents to visit or even to wait for the kids all day. I am talking about kids in Kindergarten of course.
As those kids step on the next level, elementary school, their parents can only bring them to school and stay for 20-30 minutes on the 1st day. ONLY ON THE 1st DAY. The teachers will try very hard to give comfort, safety, and fun to the new students. Although we do need parents to support through the year.
PH and JJ, part of my imaginary students, are not 1st graders. We expect their parents, their grandparents, their nannies, or drivers to support our idea of creating discipline and responsible upper grader students.
But then, JJ, winner of that class competition before, often shows up with his mom. While actually, i believe JJ can do very well without her much presence or assistance at school.
As a teacher:
-I do hope, I can find a good way to communicate about this to JJ, as well as to his mom.
-I do hope, JJ can clearly explain to his Mom, that now she must let him to do his responsibility, showing his true ability, by himself.
-I really hope JJ’s mom understands, that at school, JJ needs to do what he needs to do, dealing with lots of tasks and duties, without parents interfere.
As JJ wins the class competition, he now belongs to the school.  Do his very best as a school representation. He obviously knows what to do. He can do it. Let’s just support him in doing it.
However, in the wildest part of my imagination, for the big competition he must face now, If i were not a teacher, probably i would say: STEP AWAY MOM. This is his challenge to win. Not yours.
