Message from the Office of Cultural Diversity
Parenting Toward School Success
In an effort to improve student success, Mr. William Jenkins listed in his book, " Parenting Toward School Success," several factors that will help students reach that goal. First is to send your student to school with the right attitude, right knowledge, the right supplies, and pointed in the right direction. Second is to make your home a learning place with books, educational games, and a computer. In this day of global learning, students need computer literacy in order to prepare them for future employment. Third is to send them to school well disciplined and expecting to be taught. Talk with the school and support the efforts for maintaining discipline and providing for an atmosphere that is positive for learning. Trust teachers and form a positive bond with them so your student will also. Give your student permission to learn so they will accept teaching and know that they can be corrected without conflict. Provide specific study and homework time every evening in an environment that is productive for the student. Impress upon your student that education improves the quality of life they will have for themselves and their family. Get your student involved in school activities and support them in those efforts. Finally, try to instill in your child early how important college and/or formal training in other occupations will be to their future. Talk with school counselors about what classes are needed for the chosen career path. We need our students to have high expectations of themselves, their school, and their parents while traveling the “Road to Success.”
Dr. Nate Quinn
Coordinator of Cultural Diversity
Springfield Public Schools
“Nothing is going to be handed to you. You have to make things happen.”
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Florence Griffith Joyner, Track and Field Champ