School Policy May Let Children Suffer The Consequences of Parents' Lack of Interest In Their School Affairs

Children need to be encouraged and supported to push them to do better in whatever they have chosen to do.  It is the parents, as well as the teachers' duty to make sure this happens. According to parents.com, there a high school in Atlanta that may have found a way to do so or at least tried.

Cobb County's Pebblebrook High School has been a low-performing school for some time. Administrators have been looking for ways to boost the level higher, until someone from the board suggested a resolution. David Morgan has been a board member of the school since 2009, and he believes that getting parents involved in their children's school affairs may just be the solution.

He suggested a rule stopping the students to join any extra-curricular activities unless their parents commit to be engaged in their academic affairs might help. Fox5 Atlanta has reported that the policy would have started in the ninth grade class and go up a grade higher each year. Morgan is pushing that fact that parents can be involved in any way if they want. They can do it in person, by telephone or digitally.

However, opponents have joined forces and spoke in front of the Cobb County School Board about this suggestion. The former head coach for the school's football team has expressed his opinion stating that the the privilege to be a good school citizen should not be taken away from children just because their parents chose not to get involved academically.

Ajc.com also reported that a parent, Rich Pellegrino, whose daughter is a senior in the same school, described this as "nonsensical". He also expressed the same sentiment as former football coach Chuch Stines.

Despite Morgan's reasons, the board has denied the rule with only Morgan and another member voting for it. Another board member named David Banks said the Cobb County parents' need to get involved with their children's academic activities.