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Parent Participation Hours

MOMI believes that parent involvement is fundamental to a thriving learning community and essential to your child’s developing a positive attitude towards learning.  Every family is required to contribute fifteen (15) hours of their time each school year to the Montessori School of Maui for Parent Participation, as stated in your Enrollment Agreement.

 

MOMI families are provided a “Parent Participation Form” each year on which to indicate their preference as to how they wish to contribute their hours.  The Development Office will assign seven (7) of the fifteen (15) hours per school year to each family according to the choices made on the Parent Participation Form.  Parents are responsible for the remaining eight (8) hours that are not assigned.  A parent’s choices may need to be changed to ensure the success of events/activities that have been scheduled throughout the school year.  Parents are responsible to report their participation hours online through, MOMI’s website, at www.momi.org or by calling the Development Office directly.  You may be contacted to help by the Development Office, chairs of specific committees, a room parent, a teacher, and a member of the Board of Directors or office staff.  However, you needn’t wait to be contacted; parents will find information regarding upcoming events on the MOMI Monday Memo and the Parent Calendar, which are located on the school’s website at www.momi.org. Parents may also contact their child’s teacher to receive individual classroom event information or check the bulletin board located outside each classroom.

 

MOMI offers a wide range of interests including class projects, committee work, consultation services, and participation in regularly scheduled Community Workdays. Participation in fund-raising efforts and sharing of your time, materials and/or skills help defray our expenses and enrich our resources.  An important additional benefit to parent participation is that it validates that caring and contribution are the building blocks of citizenship.  Children who see their parents participating at their school begin to understand the subtleties of human interactions and to find the joy that comes from working with others to accomplish a task.  In this way patents transmit ideas and values that words themselves cannot convey. This validates the child’s natural generosity and conveys that education is important to the parent.