Something that jumped out at me while reading the first chapter of Fires in the Bathroom was when Kathleen Cushman said "And though students understand the importance of communicating with parents, they definitely do not want teachers visiting their homes," (page 7). The students that responded and agreed with this explained how they want to be treated like adults, and it would be uncomfortable for them to have their teachers come into their homes.
This advice was extremely shocking to me because of the experiences that classmates of mine in the past have dealt with that are similar to this. A highschool teacher of mine asked a classmate of mine if it would be alright to go to their house to have a parent teacher conference at their house because the mother refused to come to school or bring their child in to school for the conference and the student was completely fine with it. I agree with the book for the most part, but under certain circumstances I do believe that it varies among students. Although, after reading this advice, I will definitely take in to consideration that some students will be completely against this.
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