At Latin, parent involvement is both encouraged and expected.  In fact, the School goes to great lengths to inform all family members that Washington Latin Public Charter School is a high-expectation society for parents as well as students.  As a part of the enrollment process, each father, mother or guardian is asked to sign the Parent-School Covenant which forms the basis of The Washington Latin Public Charter School Parents’ Association.

Washington Latin Public Charter School

Parent-School Covenant, 2009-2010 School Year

The Parent School Covenant is founded on the belief that parents and school must establish and maintain a partnership in all aspects of school life, but most especially in the education of the students. This Covenant is a binding effort designed to strengthen the relationship between parents and the school as well as between parents and their children.

1. What Parents can expect from the School:
   1. Parents can expect that the school will strive to maintain a safe, secure, and welcoming environment for their children and that it will react vigorously to any rumors or report of danger or threats of danger.
   2. Parents can expect regular communications about their children from the school: term reports, interim reports, other “early warning” messages, including voice mails and/or e-mails.
   3. Parents can expect a regularly scheduled conference with faculty and, when warranted, other special conferences and meetings. Parents can expect assessments of their children, thoughtfully and carefully presented in writing and in person.
   4. Parents can expect to be informed immediately if there is a serious disciplinary infraction involving their children.
   5. Parents can expect timely notification if a child is encountering academic difficulties, and parents will be kept informed of follow-up plans, actions, and strategies.
   6. Parents can expect that the school will model civility in all its student/parent contacts.
   
   
2. What the school can expect from Parents:
   1. The school can expect that parents will support, encourage and help order the lives of their children.
   2. The school can expect that parents will model civility and integrity for their children; that parents will listen to, supervise, and hold their children accountable with consequences for inappropriate behavior.
   3. The school can expect that parents will support and endorse the philosophy and mission of our school,; that they will attend school events and activities, including parents conferences; and that parents will support and take part in the activities and work of the Parent Association.
   4. The school can expect parents to register dissatisfactions and complaints in a responsible and fair way; to understand the structure of operations and management at the school; to use proper channels*; to give everyone the benefit of the doubt before judgment; and to seek a collaborative solution to problems.
   5. The school can expect that parents and students will model civility in all contact with the school.