In 1989, The Business Roundtable (an organization started in 1972 of the top CEO's in this country), decided they wanted to transform public schools. Since then, the BRT has engineered a coalition of business organizations to push high-stakes testing at the state and national levels. Teachers, parents, students and many others oppose this version of education reform but have yet to figure out how to stop it, never mind create an alternative vision shared by enough people to move public and private education away from its role as the primary socializing and sorting agent for the workplace.
Around 2007, two organizations (T4SJ and Justice Matters) sponsored a workshop consisting of half parents and half teachers to explore the obstacles in the way of creating parent-teacher collaboration. They wrote a skit as a means of illustrating some truths that they agreed upon. I took the transcript of that skit and made it into a "movie" -- see below. I was moved to do so after recently watching many home movies (for example) that seemed only to be engaged in the blame game. The comments on many of these youtube movies are worse than the movie.
See if you can identify one or two obstacles to parent teacher collaboration dramatized in this skit.
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