By Noah Brooks
The open house isn't an average thing that schools do, but Dalat International School does. It is an event where a student brings their parents through their entire schedule and allows their parents to explore the school.
On Friday, August 18th, students hang out after school with their parents, bringing them to class. When teachers talk to the parents about what the students will be doing for the year or semester, some parents will end up in fitness class and see the types of workouts that students will be doing, or home economics and what students cook and sow. Those are some of the courses the parents will walk through, whether in the castle, middle school, elementary, or the Harbor.
What class would be your favorite, and what class would be your child's favorite? Parents answered across the school: Mrs. Boyd (parent) answered with, "Bible and any Social Studies are my favorite kinds of classes as well as my kids. My kids enjoy the PE and sports at Dalat too."
Not every class has to be the hardest or the most fun to make a parent happy. What matters might be the atmosphere in the renovated library or the Harbor or how the teacher can give data to the students.
From a teacher's perspective, you might expect them to be a little stressed meeting all of their student's parents. Instead, Pastor Bob Wright thought the opposite: "Stress isn't probably the best word – I think both can be challenging, but I enjoyed meeting the parents – and I enjoy having conversations in class with my students. So it's about the same." So students don't have to fear the teacher saying something nice about them in class because they also think 'I want their parents to like this class.'
At the end of the Open House, parents had a better idea of what their student's classes were like—meeting their learning expectation of hardness and atmosphere, with teachers meeting their student's parents and understanding how to help them more.
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