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Number Of Parents Together: Most schools launch their schemes by choosing the simplest way of getting a large number of parents together, which is to invite them to a special meeting for the purpose (see chapter 4, page 40). We know that big meetings between parents and teachers are often unsatisfactory affairs; teachers may be frustrated because so few parents turn up, or parents disappointed because the meeting does not deal with the issues they really want to know about. But where the theme is children's learning, and especially where parents know that they are being asked to help with it, there is usually a dramatic increase in attendance and in the degree of participation and enthusiasm during the meeting. Teachers often note with pleasure that the proportion of fathers in the audience is also much higher than usual.
Even where parents are welcomed as part of the school community, and perhaps work in the classrooms, it is rare to find them entrusted with anything other than strictly 'non-academic' activities. And, at the other extreme, a number of schools treat parents as though their child were simply not their concern during school hours. Parents withdraw from a situation where they can so easily feel themselves inferior partners and the myth of an exclusive teachers' expertise is perpetuated. The training and skills of teachers must not be ignored in all this, but what must be acknowledged is parents' undoubted ability to help their children to learn effectively.
Child welfare agencies, partic larly in the United States, have developed gre skill and usefulness in arranging and facilitati sound adoptions. Their goal is to extend the prote tion of a sound adoption to all children, all natui parents, and all adoptive parents whose nee would be most appropriately met in this way. T] number of children and parents so protected very small in relation to total need for the servic Nevertheless, the total number of child adoptioi is gradually increasing, and child welfare agenci throughout the world are participating in a grov ing proportion of adoptions of children by nonri lated persons.
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