Back in early September, our Parent Partnership Association conducted a short survey asking how our parents were feeling about the start of the year. Here are a few results from the 32 parents who answered the survey (a 20% response rate):
| Please choose which description best encompasses your feelings about Home Days with your children these first two weeks? | ||
| Weeping and gnashing of teeth and about to give up | 0% | 0 |
| Some tears, but I see glimmers of hope | 15.6% | 5 |
| It's going okay, but not as well as I had hoped | 12.5% | 4 |
| It's going well, although we have challenges | 56.3% | 18 |
| Challenges? What challenges? | 15.6% | 5 |
| What topic would be most helpful for additional parent training? | ||
| Schedule management with school work | 24.1% | 7 |
| Schedule management with extra commitments | 6.9% | 2 |
| Food and household management | 13.8% | 4 |
| Parenting tips for character/discipline challenges | 31% | 9 |
| Grade specific homework assistance | 24.1% | 7 |
One open-ended question we asked on the survey was, "How would you define Home Day success?" The answers varied:
- "If my student finishes homework by 1 or 2 p.m."
- "Every assignment completed."
- "Children connect with God in midst of their problems and enjoyable times."
- "Finishing our work with everyone happy and having good attitudes."
- "My student taking responsibility for knowing what needs to be accomplished and the best way to accomplish it with parental support."
In case you were wondering, we have good and bad days at the Dunham home. The blended model is work – for students, for parents, for the Head of School and his spouse.
