Securing a comprehensive and sound education is a profound aspect of living anywhere on earth. The capacity to attain a superior and life altering education remains subject to a variety of critical components and influences.
The intersectional aspects in achieving a life altering education includes the roles of parents, administrators, students, the community and the educators as well as other transformative influences and factors.
Of late in America our Boards of Education are now experiencing a highly volatile and critical pivotal role in the political sphere . The usual topics like selection of books and curriculum are now once again center stage in the cultural wars of race and politics. Academic Freedom is under assault in this latest Era of Education in America .
Black American Activist’s and a few others are now focused on augmenting the role of parents/community into the framing the complexities of governance and agendas of Boards of Education beginning with their contractual and bargaining negotiations with Teachers Unions
Parents and as well as taxpayers will be articulating and even demanding to be apart of the collective bargaining process between school boards and teacher’s unions with a series of metrics and guidelines which demonstrate / document accelerated academic achievements outcomes especially in school districts that continue to woefully fail our most vulnerable populations and students.
Parents and Taxpayers have been MIA for too long in this area of education. Parents no longer can rely on Boards of Education, Teachers Unions and Administrators to deliver academic outcomes. The role of accountability has now evolved and so has its evaluators.
Parents of vulnerable children simply can’t rely on the usual suspects to deliver superior educational outcomes. The pandemic and its devastating impact on our students academic performances has shattered the foundations of education in our nation and not just in vulnerable communities
The politics of Education in America better brace itself for this transformative role of parents and their role in the negotiations and bargaining process of education in America
Greg Thrasher
BLM
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