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<p class="" style="text-align: center; background-color: #fbf983; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong>"An Educated Parent on Education is the Best Solution to Poor Quality Education</strong>."</span>
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Education</span> -&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>&nbsp;</em><span style="color: #f18e00;">Understanding the issue</span></span></strong></h4>
<p class="" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="color: #333333;">In My Shoes, Inc. dba The National Parent Education Center was founded as an answer to the lack of honesty that exists in Georgia Public Schools.&nbsp; I like to tell the story that initiated my concerns in Georgia's education system. These alarms eventually led me to establish <em>In My Shoes, Inc. - The National Parent Education Center.</em></span></span></p>
<p class="auto-style31" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After moving to Georgia, I registered my son in the local elementary school, which I later learned was considered to be one of the better elementary schools in the school district.&nbsp; In March, two months later, my son's father and I attended the school's open house.&nbsp; During open house, my son's teacher approached us.&nbsp; She was very nice.&nbsp; We sat down and the teacher began showing us our son's grades, A's and B's.&nbsp; She was very delighted to inform us that our son made the Academic Honor roll.&nbsp; I remember looking at his teacher in a state of puzzlement and asking, "How?&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; He can't spell.&nbsp; You didn't&nbsp;notice?"&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="auto-style31" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Her response was bizarre, unprofessional, and unethical to me.&nbsp; She said, “Yes, but we use a whole language approach and he did very well. He's an excellent student."&nbsp; My response was a very firm, "I don't care what you use; you are going to create a generation of students who can't read."&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="auto-style31" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When we arrived home, I sat my son down and jokingly stated to him, "You know you don't spell well, and you hate looking up words."&nbsp; My son laughed.&nbsp; I told him that we were going to stick with the standards from his former state and our expectations are higher than those of Georgia.</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="auto-style31">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One side note:&nbsp; I never put the bumper sticker on my car.&nbsp; You know that bumper sticker that reads, 'My child is on the honor roll at ___________ school'.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="auto-style31">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By the end of the next school year, I had transferred to another school district to teach. My son was able to transfer to a school within that district, a school that taught reading/language arts using phonics.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p class="auto-style31" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unfortunately, this story discloses some of the problems that plagued Georgia's public schools.&nbsp; They are:</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="auto-style40" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><span class="auto-style23">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1)&nbsp; Low standards and low expectations</span><br class="auto-style23"><span class="auto-style23">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2)&nbsp; Grade inflation</span><br class="auto-style23"><span class="auto-style23">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3)&nbsp; Inadequate curriculum</span><br class="auto-style23"><span class="auto-style23">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4)&nbsp; Willingness to mislead parents about their child's abilities</span><br class="auto-style23"><span class="auto-style23">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5)&nbsp; Willingness to mislead students about their abilities</span></span></p>
<p class="auto-style31" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sadly, too many of these problems currently exist in schools across Georgia.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="auto-style31" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The schools my children attended were great schools according to my standards.&nbsp; Still, in order to get the most out of the educational system, I had to supplement their education with additional learning tools and assignments.&nbsp; In addition, there were &nbsp;times when I had to be persistent in my endeavors to get the best education possible under federal law.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><span class="auto-style31">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I have learned that public schools that succeed in Georgia have great teams.&nbsp; The most valuable members on the team are the parents.&nbsp; Parents are the ordinary heroes of their child's success and these schools flourish in spite of a bad 'franchise'</span>.</span></p>

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