Be Involved At School

If you feel like you never find out about school functions and activities until they have already happened, there are a few things you might do to help keep yourself "in the loop."

Most schools have daily announcements that are made to all students sometime during the day, usually in the morning.  These announcements include much information about club activities, scholarship opportunities and deadlines for application, reminders about meetings, sports activities, etc.  Many schools now publish their daily announcements on the school web site.  If so, that can be an excellent source of "what's going on" information for you.

Make every attempt to attend the high school's open house and meet your teenager's teachers.  And when parent-teacher conference time comes, make plans to attend and discuss your student's progress.  During the visit with the teacher, you are likely to pick up pieces of information about things happening at school that you were unaware of.  Bottom line is, the more contact you have with the school the more in the know you are going to be.  So be involved.  I love those public service announcements made on one of the television networks about involvement in your child's life..."The More You Know..." How very true that really is.