Parent Participation & Rights
You, the parent, are your child's teacher passing on your own morals, values, ideals, personal likes and dislikes. Because of this fact, you are equally important in the classroom.
If your schedule allows, please ask to spend time visiting Montessori international on a pre-determined schedule. You may feel there are contributions you would like to share with the staff and the children. It can be as simple as a hobby, or insights for the children into your own profession. Montessori International and your child both need you. It is tremendously valuable for your child to see you actively participating at school.
At home, be interested in and receptive to stories, conversations, and projects going on at school. When your child brings home a paper or project he/she has completed, take a few minutes to sit with them alone and allow them to explain it to you. Please take care not to cross examine—be truly interested in the effort, not in trying to test your child's intelligence.
Be positive, encouraging and appreciative; remember it is the responsibility of Montessori International to provide the formal education of your child. Your prime responsibility is to support your child to the best of your child's educational endeavors.
Parents Rights:
Parents have the right to …
- Know their children are in a safe environment where they are free to select from a variety of activities.
- Participate in all levels of decision-making concerning how their children spend the day.
- Know what types of programs and activities are being planned, and to be offered feed back on the kinds of activities the children enjoy.
- Share concerns with the Staff, Advisory Committee, or Board at any time, about anything they do not feel is in the best interest of the children.
- Know if their child is misbehaving, and to spend time talking with the staff concerning a solution.
- Know if the child does not report to the program as intended.
- Know when the children will be going any place other than where the program is usually held.
- Voice special concerns and considerations not covered in the school's manual, and to discuss special cases where occasional exceptions may be made from the rules set forth in the manual
Parents Responsibilities:
Parents have the responsibility to…
- Let the staff know if their child will not be in attendance for the day.
- Observe the rules of the Montessori International program as set forth in this manual and in any additional policy statements.
- To share their concerns with staff members and the Advisory Council/Board, if the program is not meeting their child's needs.
- Listen to concerns that staff members have about their child's behavior, and to work through an agreeable solution to any problems that might occur.
- Know about any change in policy or procedure.
- Know the discipline procedure of the center as explained in the school's manual.
- Replace any equipment that their child is responsible for misusing.
- Sign out their child at the end of the day; to notify a staff member they are taking a child from the center, and to notify the staff when another authorized person Is picking up the child.
- Inform the staff if the child has been exposed to a contagious illness.
- Notify the staff of planned absences in advance.
- Notify the staff of withdrawal at least 2 weeks in advance
- Pay all fees on time.
- To keep the child's medical and personal records up-to-date including immunizations, current phone numbers and addresses.
- Pick up your child on time.