1. Be sure that your child's attendance in school is consistent since disruptions in schedules can cause stress and frustration.

2. Encourage and help your child to give proper attention to health, personal cleanliness and neatness of dress. Be sure your child is in compliance with the dress code.

3. Provide a quiet area for reading to your child. Discourage interruptions and distractions from friends, phone and TV during this special time.

4. Provide a place and time for play and developmentally appropriate activities for your child in your home.

5. Encourage your child to bring home promptly any communications from class. Read the communication and if necessary, discuss with your child.

6. Speak well of teachers, administrators and the program they attend. Refrain from being critical when your child is listening.

7. Attend the conferences established by your child's teacher.

8. Take part in working cooperatively with other parents, respond to calls for volunteers, visit the classroom and make your presence and your influence felt on a regular basis.

9. Should your child become involved in behavioral challenges, help him/her to understand appropriate behavior and resolve issues in a positive manner.

10. When you sense there is a breakdown in discipline and/or communication, please pray and bring your concerns to the attention of your teacher and principals in that order.

1. Pray daily for the faculty and students. God works on behalf of those who pray. Many times educational change does not come rapidly. AFor precept must be upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little,@ (Isaiah 28:10) As you observe a student from day to day, it is not always possible to see how they have changed. However, when you look back over three months, six months, or a year or two, you can see that God has done much in that student=s life. Be faithful and patient in your daily prayer support of the school.

2. Attend school functions. Why is this important? It shows your child that their education means a great deal to you, for you are giving priority to their school by making the effort to attend its functions. Students who excel are generally from homes where parents place a high value upon being involved with the school. Christian education must involve the parents and their children.

3. Do volunteer work. Volunteer work brings you into close communication with the teachers, staff and other parents. You are able to acquire sensitivity to the needs of the school and to see how everything works together for the good of the student. There is something about working together which binds your hearts together while you are accomplishing the tasks to be done. Also, this volunteer work saves the school money and that keeps the costs of tuition and fees lower; thus, benefiting everyone.

4. Be enthusiastic, and speak good reports about the school. Your positive attitudes about the school influence the attitudes of your children toward the school. Your word of encouragement, your friendly smile, your positive endorsement, causes those who minister to your children to do better.