Black Parents and Educators Have Identified a Number of Issues

Black parents and educators have identified a number of issues that hinders the relationship between educational institutions and the Black community, including:

A) The absence of people of colour on parent advisory boards
B) Feelings that communication with the school are one-way, non-transactional and initiated only when the school reports disciplinary problems
C) The lack of school sponsored events in the community allowing for more informal interactions between parents and educators
D) Prohibiting Black and other minority parents from participating in after-school programs
E) The overtly racist language that teachers use when forced to conduct teacher-parent interviews every year