Reading your kids essays?

BrownParent
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:11:29 +0000

As long as some knowledgeable adult is reading it, I don’t think you should be concerned at all. It is very nice of the teacher, if that is really the case. I don’t think it is smart to send an unreviewed essay, though. Maybe the essay is personal and she will feel inhibited in the writing of it if she has to show it to you. There is definitely such a thing as too personal or inappropriately personal and I’m sure the teacher will be in a position to say so. The position of I’m paying so it is my right is an ugly one and I wouldn’t play that card. For a good writer, parental input is just not necessary. I would have been surprised and a bit letdown, but accepting.