Cobb School Board Member Suggests Tying Graduation Tickets to Parent Participation

A Cobb County school board member has stirred up controversy with a proposal to bar some parents from attending their children’s graduations.

According to WSB-TV, David Morgan believes that parents that regularly fail to attend important events pertaining to education should not be allowed to participate in their child or children’s success ceremonies.

Under Morgan’s proposal, events like parent-teacher conferences, open nights, and curriculum nights would become mandatory for parents to attend, and those that miss too many of them would lose the ability to see their child or children graduate at the end of the school year.

Morgan says that more involved parents means more successful students. The school board member believes that involved parents who are given enough advance notice can make time to show up to the events, but parents are not so confident.

WSB-TV talked to parents who felt Morgan’s idea was not workable with the modern realities of parenting. Many households are single-parent, or have two working parents who cannot get time off of work to attend parent-teacher conferences or curriculum nights.

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