Parents and Teachers are Partners

I am reposting this because it is goes so nicely with what Janine has to say at the TBA Book Study.

When I taught in school, I would include the poem below in the parents' welcome packets. It reminds parents how their participation at home is very important and that we work together as a team to educate and encourage their children. My favorite part is the last passage. ☺

Unity

I dreamt I stood in a studio,

And watched two sculptors there.

The clay they used was a young child’s mind,

And they fashioned it with care.

One was a teacher—the tools she used,

Were books, music, and art.

The other, a parent—working with a guiding hand,

And a gentle loving heart.

Day after day, the teacher toiled

With a touch that was deft and sure.

While the parent labored by her side,

And polished and smoothed it o’er.

And when at last, their task was done,

They were proud of what they had wrought.

For the things they had molded into the child,

Could neither be sold nor bought.

And each agreed they would have failed

If each had worked alone,

For behind the teacher stood the school,

And behind the parent, the home.

- Author Unknown

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