Parent Teacher

It's been about a week since we had Parent Teacher interviews and with regards to the outlines of this class (Product/Process/Praxis) it was interesting talking with parents and seeing what they focused on.

The parents clearly fell within the Product paradigm clearly just wanting to know how their child did compared to others. As outlined on the note posted by Steve, from the NB class, parents were clearly focused how to achieve higher marks and their perceived short comings of the children. Unlike any other school or school division I have taught in there is such an emphasis on averages. Parents seem to need to measure their child against another and to prepare them for life after school. This to mean screams product based education.

No parent asked me about process and certainly not praxis. I find myself wondering that if we were to begin to reform education along process/praxis how supportive would parents be? I tend to be pessismistic in nature but I just don't see parents being supportive to these changes.