Both parents and communities must be involved in the local schools. Education is too important to leave solely to a group of professional educators. - GRE Issue 68

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Both parents and communities must be involved in the local schools. Education is too important to leave solely to a group of professional educators. - GRE Issue 68

Should parents and communities participate in local education because education is too important to leave to professional educators, as the speaker asserts? It might be tempting to agree with the speaker, based on a parent's legal authority over, familiarity with, and interest in his or her own children. However, a far more compelling argument can be made that, except for major decisions such as choice of school, a child's education is best left to professional educators.

Communities of parents concerned about their children's education rely on three arguments for active parental and commu...

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