Parental Involvement in Education

Parental Involvement in Education
Christin Hale
English 102 Sunday, July 1, 2012 Lisa Bowman

Since schools formalizing, families and school have worked together. During this time families maintained the central control of schools by hiring teachers and making the curriculum. There was a separation in the twentieth century between schools and families. As of today schools and families have a partnership and share responsibility of education for the students. Parental involvement has come a long way in the past years; it has a positive outlook on schooling. Teachers think important to have parental involvement. There are many pros and cons for parental involvement. Parental involvement in their children’s education provides the majority of students with the ability to excel in a classroom setting, even though some students may excel without parental guidance.
When parents are involved in their students schooling, they have a better communication between each other. An increase in involvement shows a positive result academically for a life of long success. When the student is empowered then they achieve academically. Studies show that when parents are involved in their child 's schooling and extracurricular actives, they are more likely to do better and have a better attitude toward education and life. When we show are children that we care how they do in school, and then they point of fact want to do well and try. Parental involvement is not just important for schools, it is also important for the community. It helps fill job opportunities when they are opened. In most jobs in today’s time you have to get a GED or High School Diploma in order to get a good job. It is like a life circle, it just keeps going around. Students need support just like we need support to raise them. This becomes a two way street concerning to education. The teachers are excited to see parents trying to be involved in their children s lives. Jenifer Wise as a parent and teacher of 1st grade; she says ‘It is very important for parents to be involved in students education. That when you have problems out of a student whose parent is involved all you have said is “I will call your mom” this lets the child know that you are in with the parent.” Sometimes teachers do seem to be frustrated when you go a visit them, this is only because the students are not use to this. When parents’ makes visits to the school and attend extracurricular activities, the student feels important and wanted. Teachers want parents to come to school activities and functions. They see that there is a change in the student. Teachers feel that they reach out; parents just do not care or have time. Studies done showed the effects of miscommunication between parents and teachers, find that parents miss understand what the teacher is suggesting (Musti-Roo and Cartledge 2004.) The child will excel academically if the parent knows what is going on the child 's class. He or she can help with homework and studying. Then they are more likely to achieve academically. Once a student’s goes into middle school and high school, they see a drop in parental involvement. According to "Education Weekly" (2004), Data from the 2000 National Assessment of Education showed national that ninety present of 4th graders were in school. A school official reported that more than half of parents participate in parent teacher conferences. Among 8th graders the percentage drops to fifty-seven. The principle Eddie Guesharu at Epps Elementary and High School states that even in small towns the ratios are true. Only about one fourth of the parents even try to car. In his High School he only gets maybe five phone call or visits from parents. Which means that three fourth he never speaks or hears from. When asked why so low. “The parents do not care or it is a single parent home, low income. The one fourth that does communicate they are form stable homes. The most common reason that higher grade levels parental involvement is lower; parents believe that they cannot assist with more stimulating subjects. There can also be some negative affect to parental involvement. Parental involvement can have it problems to. A parent can miss understand a teacher and they could take it the wrong way. Then you have the parent whose child never does anything wrong. They will be an angel when the parent is there, then the second they walk out the go wild. When this happens the parent just causes conflicts with the teacher. Because the student sees that they can get away with it and knows that mom or dad is not going to believe the teacher. Then there is the parent who complains about every little thing, so when something big happens they tend to be ignored; (Wise, 2012) (Gueshrue, 2012) like the boy who cried wolf. The one teacher hates worse the parent who over discipline their child so this makes the teacher not want to call the parent with something bad happens. Parents do not need to be too involved that is how conflicts like above happen.
When parents come to school regularly, it reinforces the student that home and school are connected. Lack of involvement is the biggest problem facing public schools today. One of the main issues officials have is how to get parents involved. Know that parents and teachers are on one page, you all need to work together for sake of our country. What you do today is for the future. You need to make sure we put the student’s education first.

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Cited: Parental Involvement. (2004, August). Retrieved from Education Weekly: http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/parent-involvement/ Reasons for Parental Involvement Coleman, B. (2009). From Home to School. Mississippi: common ground plublishing. Mellymalay, S. K. (2010). Parental Involvement in Children 's Education. Earopean Journal of Social Science, Vol. 16, Number 3. Retrieved from UOP Library. Vellymalay, S. (2010). Does Parents ' education really Matter. European Journal of Social Science, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p439-448, 10p, 4 Charts. Wise, J. (2012, April). First Grade Teacher of Epps Eilementry. (C. Hale, Interviewer)