<p>Dear Dads,</p>
<p>I just want to extend a man-sized 
thank you for the moral & practical support you give your “issue” – in one denotation of that word, as well as any adopted “issue.” If you are reading this forum, you must give a mmmm about their educational present & futures. Moreover, one level of interest is often indicative of an earlier level, so I suspect that most of you were also quite involved, or are, in their K-12 education. It makes a gigantic difference when <em>both</em> parents are involved: I see these differences between families of students I teach. When the father is, along with the mother, also able (& desirous) of participating in the child’s education, the results are amazing. This is across all ethnic groups, all economic groups. And it’s true for either gender. Female students whose fathers are positively involved & sincerely interested not only tend to make better progress, but tend to be more self-confident about academics & about their futures after academics.</p>
<p>So unfortunately I don’t know the male identities of all the CC posters – other than curmudgeon, TheDad, ucla<em>ucsd</em>dad, ADad, Dadx{many}, but we need way more of you on the k-12 level.</p>
<p>Gratefully,
~e.
:)</p>
<p>Hey, I tried to delete this because I’m one week early! wouldn’t let me delete. Oh well.</p>