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Case: The Super Parent Volunteer A mother of one of your first grade students is an active volunteer in the school. At the beginning of the school year she would occasionally volunteer in your classroom. Now instead of occasionally volunteering she is volunteering in your classroom every day. You see that her child is distracted by her presence. The school has an open door policy, but you feel that the mother being in the classroom every day is affecting the quality of the student's schoolwork. Volunteers are scarce within the school and you do not want to discourage parent involvement, but you feel the mother is being overbearing. How would you resolve the situation? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) If talking to the parent doesn't work, I would talk to the principal to create volunteer guidelines like we have in our school. At the beginning of the year, you fill out a form saying what activities you would like a volunteer for. You have the option of checking off that you would not like volunteers to be parents of your students. I check this option each year. It's an all or none type of deal, so if you check it, NONE of the parents of your students will be volunteering in your room. Of course we still have the open door policy where parents are welcome to pop in their children, but if the volunteer aspect is taken away from it, it takes away her excuse to stay in there for long periods of time. |
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