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But Currently…

Often, the voices of parents and other stakeholders in education are not heard when important educational decisions are being made. Parents and community members are made to feel inadequate and unwelcome in many school settings, especially parents whose culture, home language or economic status is not mainstream. Critical educational decisions are not always communicated with parents in a language they understand, nor is there shared decision-making or a process by which community and schools work together to resolve problems for their mutual benefit.