http://insideschools.org/blog/2008/03/25/student-thought-massive/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:51:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://insideschools.org/blog/2008/03/25/student-thought-massive/#comment-159 Ellen Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:41:50 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2008/03/25/student-thought-massive/#comment-159 I was there too. I was there too.

]]> http://insideschools.org/blog/2008/03/25/student-thought-massive/#comment-160 Anonymous Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://insideschools.org/blog/2008/03/25/student-thought-massive/#comment-160 Grrrr. This is infuriating. Under the current policy of Mayoral Control these positions were created to give parents who have been historically ignored by the DOE a way of solving a problem from enrollment to special needs. From my own experience with family advocates this year when I was faced with enrollment problems for two of my children they were helpful in recording my problem, but were mostly bright people who could guess what I should do & what might happen from past experience, but were unempowered & out of the loop. The DOE either purposely or through phenomenal oversight doesn't communicate information to them making them fairly impotent. If they are cutting $ by cutting back people, I do hope they will use their resources to give the remaining family advocates an informed voice! Same goes for parent coordinators & principals for that matter. Give them some accurate information to disseminate! Grrrr. This is infuriating. Under the current policy of Mayoral Control these positions were created to give parents who have been historically ignored by the DOE a way of solving a problem from enrollment to special needs. From my own experience with family advocates this year when I was faced with enrollment problems for two of my children they were helpful in recording my problem, but were mostly bright people who could guess what I should do & what might happen from past experience, but were unempowered & out of the loop. The DOE either purposely or through phenomenal oversight doesn’t communicate information to them making them fairly impotent. If they are cutting $ by cutting back people, I do hope they will use their resources to give the remaining family advocates an informed voice! Same goes for parent coordinators & principals for that matter. Give them some accurate information to disseminate!

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