‘Moose’ Edwards Goes National with Report Card Idea

First the Today Show this morning, (we are working on getting the video) and now FOXNEWS has picked up on the proposal by Steve ‘Moose’ Edwards, Republican school board member, to grade parents on their parenting skills.

“I tried to design something modest [measuring] things that virtually everybody would agree parents should do to help their kids,” Edwards said. “We don’t have our staff making any subjective evaluations.”

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“Edwards says parents aren’t properly preparing their kids for school. He’s proposed evaluations on whether parents get their children to class on time, ensure their kids have completed their homework each night and attend the twice-yearly parent-teacher conferences about the children’s report cards and academic progress.

The other two categories — which Edwards admitted are more a matter of interpretation — would give parents a positive or negative grade depending on whether their children seem to have been fed an adequate breakfast and are appropriately dressed for the weather.”

“If a student complains that he or she is hungry and the teacher can hear the student’s stomach grumbling, why? What’s the story? How can we help with that?” explained Edwards, who has 13-year-old and 10-year-old daughters in the district.”