Originally Posted by Zen Scanner
At our Title 1 school with appropriate id scanning, parents have very free access to the school and classrooms. It's part of the rules required for the funding.

Interesting. It's a Title 1 school that I'm talking about, where parents aren't really in the classroom (at least for grade 2+). I don't think they would ever refuse to allow a parent in, but the parent would pretty much have to insist. It was pretty obvious DS's 1st grade teacher didn't want volunteers. I told her I could volunteer once per week so she put me on a schedule 1-2 times per month. Parents wouldn't show up at other times, when they weren't scheduled, because then they would look/feel pushy. After about 3 months she stopped sending out the schedule altogether (not just to me, but to all the parents). So the overall message that parents get is that they aren't really welcome or wanted.