{"id":4553,"date":"2012-01-27T14:24:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2012-01-30T11:54:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T16:54:32","slug":"lawmakers-proposes-grading-floridas-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/27\/lawmakers-proposes-grading-floridas-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmaker Proposes Grading Florida’s Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Florida House of Representatives<\/p>

Rep. Kelli Stargel's bill would require teachers to evaluate their students' parents.<\/p><\/div>\n

Florida law requires grades for students, teachers, schools and districts. So why not parents as well?<\/p>\n

Rep. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, has introduced a bill — HB 543<\/a> — to do just that.<\/p>\n

Fort Myers News-Press<\/em> columnist Sam Cook thinks the proposed grades are a bad idea and unlikely to improve the relationship between teachers, parents and students.<\/p>\n

“The bill will incite acrimony,” Cook writes<\/a>. “Both sides will get defensive. Arguments will erupt. HB 543 won\u2019t bring together parents and teachers. It will tear them apart.”<\/p>\n

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One thing is clear from reading the bill: It will create more work for teachers.<\/p>\n

It’s also not clear whether the bill would just treat the symptoms of disinterested parents, or actually deal with the underlying causes.<\/p>\n

Teachers would have to issue grades in three categories: The frequency with which a student is late or absent; the parent’s response to requests for conferences or communication; and the thoroughness and accuracy of a student’s records, including immunization records, phone numbers and emergency contacts.<\/p>\n

The teacher would have to issue a grade in each category of “satisfactory,” “needs improvement” or “unsatisfactory.”<\/p>\n

Each school board would set the exact requirements for their district’s reports.<\/p>\n

The bill would also allow parents to appeal their evaluation and require school districts to gather the data and submit a report to the Florida Department of Education.<\/p>\n

What do you think parents and teachers? Is this a waste of time? Will this help get parents to pay more attention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida law requires grades for students, teachers, schools and districts. So why not parents as well? Rep. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, has introduced a bill — HB 543 — to do just that. Fort Myers News-Press columnist Sam Cook thinks the proposed grades are a bad idea and unlikely to improve the relationship between teachers, parents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":4554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1105,1073,271,270,1029],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4559,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}