r talents and abilities. Something like the OASIS test would be a good start. This goal-planning helps open up doors to the student that he or she may never have known were there. An educator needs to find out what a student is interested in and help the student find goals. The educator should give statistics on what kind of job the student can get if he or she has graduated from high-school or if he or she does not graduate. How important of a role should the parents play? I think parents should play the biggest and most important role in every aspect of their child's life. The parent should play the biggest role in motivating their child. I also think the parents should play a large role in discipline. Parents need to discipline their child and I think there is less discipline happening in families today then there was before this time. I can tell that there is less discipline, just by the way I see children act. A lot of children seem to boss their own parents around. If parents and even schools had stricter rules and discipline, there would not be as much trouble as there is now. Another subject that shows the lack of discipline in today's society is the amount of teen pregnancies, and the amount of teens running around late at night being troublemakers. If teens are running around at nights, that means that the parents are not controlling their own children. Parents need and should be aware of their child's activities and the people that they associate with. If parents know this, then they should be able to discipline their child and be reassured that there could or could not be a problem with their child. Do you believe there should be more contact between parents and teachers? I think parents and teachers need a lot more contact. For one, contact with each other will allow the parents to see how their student is doing and will allow the teachers to see how the parents are. A while back, there were a lot of parent-teacher associat...