Friday, July 6th, 2012

 

Karen Dyke, the principal of Aldershot Elementary asks, "What's home got to do with it?" Rural community. Talked about the effect of centralisation and the affect on rural schools and family access to schools. How parents when they commute to work they cannot meet you at the school during the school hours. No wonder we don't see parents as often we should be because they are working and commuting. In rural schools teachers are not following the curriculum as closely as their city counterparts. Added costs to take kids on a field trip. Social capital – principal and consultant with valley school board social capital/ social interactions, linking it to disability, the social capital that disabled students bring to school is undervalued. Families who look the most like us, their social capital and concerns are taken more seriously than those that don't look like us. People who are like us are easier to relate to and understand. Karen Dyke relates talk to the Ferguson presentation – day at the beach, going for a drive in California compared to Nova Scotia.