Study researcher Toby Parcel of North Carolina state University, said in a statement “Our study shows that parents need to be aware of how important they are, and invest time in their children – checking homework, attending school events and letting kids know how school is important.” Parent’s involvement in a child’s education can have the greatest impact upon their lives and can also be one of the most influential factors to their success in education. In Joseph Gaskins “So About that Bahamas National Average: Anti- intellectualism, masculinity and the Making of Ignorance”, he argues that it is a shared responsibility, but I disagree, the failure and success in the education system is the fault of the parents. Parents need to be involved in a child’s education and more aware of what their children are doing.
In the first place, what is parental involvement? Rockwell, Andre and Howley 1995, defines parental involvement as the practice of any activity that empowers parents and families to participate in the educational process at home, school or in any other setting. When a child isn’t taught by parents to make school his/her top priority, it isn’t. When parents don’t monitor the children’s homework, it often isn’t done; when grades and progress reports aren’t discussed in the home, they aren’t effective in the school. Parents need to be involved in a child’s education and give them daily support in the home environment. If parents neglect to equip their kids with the fundamentals necessary for reading comprehension and arithmetic, their children start behind the proverbial learning curve. In the early years parents are their children’s first teachers- exploring, reading together and counting together. When a child begins school, the parent’s job is to show him/her how school can extend learning you began at home and how exciting learning can be. Parents fail to take the time out to pay attention to what their child is doing. No child should come home straight...