15 Things This High School Teacher Thinks Every Parent Should Know

Every fall I look forward to the start of school with the same anticipation I had as an eight-year-old. Call me weird, but even after being a high school teacher for 25 years, I still find the the smell of chalk dust and freshly sharpened pencils exciting. So when the merchants load their shelves with brightly colored notebooks and boxes of crayons, my mind naturally turns to school and students.

As both an English teacher and parent of three young adults, I know how important the relationsh...