Parents at Lecture

I thought it was very interesting to hear the parents perspective now that I am a little bit more informed about the logistics of Education since I've taken some Education classes. I kind of figured that parents really wouldn't understand what the point of all the testing is but it was interesting that the 2 parents involved in Education in some way were not as harsh towards NCLB and the testing but the Dad who is a lawyer was very openly against standardized testing. I also found it interesting how each parent was involved in their children's education to varying amounts. The dad said that he let his kids deal with problems at school until they come to him for advice or he can tell for sure that something isn't going well and his child is always upset. The 2 moms have kids with disabilities so they had to be involved in the education process a little bit more which causes them to advocate for their child more instead of the child advocating for themself. Parents all have different opinions about education but, in the end, they just want their children to be happy, enjoy school, be somewhat motivated and successful. This is all that matters to a parent, not the state test scores or any graphs, just are they happy and doing at least moderately well.