What is Muscotas attitude toward parental involvement?
Muscota welcomes and encourages parents to become involved in school life. Involvement can mean many things and can happen at all times of the day or week, not just during school hours. • Teachers appreciate volunteers in the classroom or chaperones on fieldtrips. • Several events and fundraisers each year need parents to help with organization, set up, clean up, or chaperoning. • Every classroom has a class parent, who organizes parental help in the classroom, and a class representative, who acts as a liaison between the parents and the staff. • There is an active Parents’ Association that can help find ways for parents to become involved. • Many Muscota parents attend Department of Education and Community Board meetings to represent the needs of the school and families. • Washing rest-time blankets, purchasing extra supplies, burning copies of photo CDs for slide show projects, translating fliers into Spanish, sewing a hem onto a classroom tablecloth, buying a muffin at the bakesales
