Communication: The Most Important Aspects Of Communication Between Parents And Parents

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Experts have stated for years that communication is the most important aspect of any relationship or partnership. We find this to be true in a long-lasting marriage as well as any limited-liability corporation (LLC) grown between two best friends. The truth in the teacher/home/school relationship is that it comes with a totally different reality. Teachers and parents are drawn together because of the their children’s required education. The law mandates it!!! There is no past in which this relationship has been given time in which to develop and grow like a good marriage or business.

I started the development of my question on this premise. What is the level of valued communication between the teacher/school and the parents/family of …show more content…

Jayne Huseby who is an Instructional Support Assistant for the Amphi School District also confirmed that because of language barriers with most of the teachers that there are three basic ways of communication between the parents and teacher/school. One is when the bilingual secretary at the school calls the parents for an appointment, which usually happens only when there is a problem such as bad grades or bad behavior. This takes place with only 50% of the ELL population, which is Hispanic. The second way the parents are communicated is through a translation company called Language Lines that with no visual contact in the process, translates the needs of the school to the refugee parents. To me this was disappointing. The best communication in the world involves visual contact since body language can be universal and often speaks volumes of information the spoken word cannot. The third way of parent to teacher/school communication is actually when the young student becomes translator for the parents and teacher. This places a lot of unfair expectation on the student. It also limits the actual depth of communication taking place between the parent and school. I label this new gap of communication the translation gap in communication. When there is no clear communicator on behalf of the needs of the child, there is an almost complete loss of comprehensible communication as a result of the actual

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