Pinellas school district tries going to parents is an article about staff from a Florida school making home visits.

Generally, I don’t recommend going unannounced, but if a school widely publicizes it throughout the neighborhood and most parents know they’re going to happen on a particular Saturday it can usually work out fine. It sounds like this school might have done it that way.

I’m not too thrilled with staff giving parents the gift certificates for talking with them as described in the article, but, all in all, it sounds like they’re doing great work….