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    Guiding Your Child Through School: Essays on Education
    Guiding Your Child Through School: Essays on Education
    Guiding Your Child Through School: Essays on Education
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    Guiding Your Child Through School: Essays on Education

    By Nancy Devlin

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    Our schools have a great deal to offer if people know how to use them well. When parents, teachers, and children understand each other, and the system, everybody benefits. You can best help your school by being supportive, by encouraging the people in the system, and by understanding what the school can and cannot do. This book will help you become an informed parent acting responsibly for positive results.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJul 18, 2012
    ISBN9781477244500
    Guiding Your Child Through School: Essays on Education
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    Nancy Devlin

    About the Author Nancy Devlin is a retired licensed psychologist, family therapist, and nationally certified school psychologist. She lives in central Philadelphia with her husband, Tim. She is a former columnist at the Star Ledger, and has published a number of books on parenting and navigating the school system, which are available collectively in "Wisdom to Share: From Birth to College." She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at the University of California Berkeley, and was a school psychologist at Princeton public schools for twenty-two years. About the Illustrator Jared Perella teaches arts and humanities in Reading, PA. He lives in Shillington with his amazing wife, Tina, rocker son, Jack, and soccer striker daughter, Zoe. He creates art in all mediums from his home studio and loved working with Nancy on this modern fairy tale promoting driver etiquette. The world needs more patience.

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      Guiding Your Child Through School - Nancy Devlin

      © 1998, 2012 by Nancy Devlin, PhD. All rights reserved.

      Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 08/30/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-4420-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-4450-0 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012912629

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Excerpt from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright 1923 by Kahlil Gibran and renewed 1951 by Administrators C. T. A. of Kahlil Gibran Estate and Mary G. Gibran.

      Additional copies of this book can be requested through the contact form contained on the website and Blog, www.Cassandrasclassroom.com

      This book is dedicated to all parents. I regard as parents all you caring people who have accepted the awesome commitment to raise a child to responsible adulthood. You deserve to be loved, cherished and encouraged.

      And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said,

      Speak to us of Children.

      And he said: Your children are not your children

      They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

      They come through you but not from you,

      And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

      You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

      For they have their own thoughts.

      You may house their bodies but not their souls,

      For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

      You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

      For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

      You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

      The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

      Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness.

      For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves the bow that is stable.

      THE PROPHET

      Kahlil Gibran

      *     *     *

      For clarity I have consistently used female pronouns when referring to teachers and male pronouns when referring to students. Our language, at present, offers only cumbersome alternatives to gender-biased pronouns.

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      Contents

      Preface

      Chapter 1 Kindergarten Screening

      Chapter 2 The First Day At School

      Chapter 3 Your First Meeting with the Teacher

      Chapter 4 Homework

      Chapter 5 Report Cards

      Chapter 6 Parent-Teacher Conferences

      Chapter 7 Cumulative Folders and Test Scores

      Chapter 8 Labeling Children

      Chapter 9 Problem Solving

      Chapter 10 Judging a School System

      Concluding Remarks

      Preface

      Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

      Margaret Mead

      Your child is going to spend a great part of his life in school. Before he enters school, you are in charge of making all decisions. You can decide whether or not to send him to pre-school programs. You can choose how often to send him, and you can make any changes you feel proper at any time. Suddenly, when your child becomes five, the school system takes over with its many customs, regulations and laws. You now face a system which has been in power for generations. You lose control but still bear primary responsibility for the education of your child.

      What can you do? The most important thing you can do is to become informed. That is the goal of this book. To help you to understand the school system so that you can ensure that your child will receive a proper education.

      You may never have experienced a good school system yourself. You may not know what the possibilities are, what your rights are or what you can and should expect. You may approach the educational system as the student you once were. Maybe you were reasonably successful at school; maybe not. But in any case, you were taught that the school is the authority, and that you must humbly submit.

      Now try to approach the school system as you have learned to approach the health care system. You know how to choose a doctor, a hospital, how to describe symptoms, how to monitor medicines. You keep informed to avoid becoming a victim of the very system that is supposed to be helping you. The same thing should be true of your dealings with the educational system.

      You can best help the school system to succeed by being supportive, by encouraging the people in the system and by understanding what schools can and cannot do. It is not enough

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