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Parents gather to improve communication
Published Saturday, June 27, 2009
NATCHEZ — By noon today, the Parents for Public Schools hope to have made better communicators out of the parents in the Natchez-Adams School District.
Parent Coordinator Monica Cannon said today’s workshop is aimed at helping parents identify different personality styles and then learning the skills to address those specific styles.
Cannon said the main goal of the workshop is to help parents become better equipped to communicate with administrators and teachers in the public school system.
“A lot of times people think other people are hard to deal with, but if you know how to address that person’s personality type you can communicate with them,” she said.
Today’s event is from 10 a.m. until noon at the Armstrong Library and is free to the public.
Parents for Public Schools is a community-based organization aimed at strengthening public schools with help from the public.
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Posted by juju (anonymous) on June 27, 2009 at 3:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
ALL the parents fit into the library? Oh well, I guess you got one of your improvement requirements met. Nice try. Good luck with the 2009-2010 school- year.
Posted by mrmojorisin (anonymous) on June 27, 2009 at 9:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)
juju.....whatcha wanna bet they have chairs to spare?
Please ND, when you send a reporter, please have him take a count on the number of interested parents and compare it to the number of children in the public school system.
---mojo
Posted by Hardcorps (anonymous) on June 27, 2009 at 10:08 a.m.
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Posted by gemccull (Gary McCullars) on June 27, 2009 at 10:53 a.m.
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Posted by gemccull (Gary McCullars) on June 27, 2009 at 12:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well, let me try again.
If you consider the parents are the customers and the school system is the supplier, why would the customer have to be trained to deal with the supplier?
After all, the parent is paying for a product/service and the school system is responsible to deliver a quality product/service.
Could it be that out of all the professional staff at the school, we do not have trained communicators?
JMO
Posted by 000117 (anonymous) on June 28, 2009 at 1:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Now that was nice. I like that one.
Product and service.
Posted by Hardcorps (anonymous) on June 28, 2009 at 10:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)
WHY WAS MY POST DELETED???????????????????????
Posted by mrmojorisin (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 8:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
If our public schools had better trained communicators, maybe our ACT and SAT scores would be better...of course, as was on display at last year's Christmas parade, when the teachers try to be pals with the students to the extent of allowing them to choreograph, practice and put on a performance that would make a stripper blush, they cease to be teachers. IE, to teach, to instruct, to impart knowledge..........
I've said this before: I visited the school and personally interrupted two teachers. One was reading her email, the other was playing solitaire while their students talked and texted on their cell phones, slept, and basically did whatever they wanted to do. I had to wake one student up to ask him where his teacher was. I couldn't believe it when he pointed to the front of the room... That's our $4.4 million a month budget at work, brother?
---mojo
Posted by juju (anonymous) on June 30, 2009 at 2:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
gemccull, do you really think that most of these parents are 'paying' customers?
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