I am from Columbus, Indiana. My community has a pretty good partnership with the schools. The school corporation has an organization that is called the Bartholomew Consolidated School Foundation. The mission of the Bartholomew Consolidated School Foundation is to promote and support our community’s commitment to educational excellence for all learners. They help partner businesses and other people in the community with schools to put on programs, help financially, and help in the classroom. I think that one thing the community could do better is be in the schools more. People from the community do not really go into the schools to talk or help, and I think that it would make lessons more real if they had someone to talk about it that was involved with it. A way that I can help make the partnership better is to talk about it and to get people involved.

Parent Teacher Conference

I enjoyed doing the mock parent teacher conference. I feel that I learned a lot while doing it. I had to go through and figure out how to run one, and then actually run one. I also liked that you had a have a difficult parent because when we are in the schools all parents are not going to be easy to work with. I thank you for the opportunity to do this because I feel better prepared to do a parent teacher conference.

Drug and Alcohol Families

This would be a hard thing to deal with in the classroom. It would be a hard thing if it was the parents, but an even harder thing to deal with if the student was doing it. If it is the student that does meth than you have to worry about them bringing it to class with them. You also have to worry about the child selling it or giving it away to other children.
If it is the parents that do it, than you have to worry about what kind of environment the child goes home to. You also have to be looking for signs of abuse, because you never know how the parents will treat the child.