Is this an actual statistic?
I applaud parents who are this involved with their children!!! I wonder if this kind of parental involvement with publically-educated students might help to correct the sway toward which the system might be heading.
Too often public school teachers hear the likes of, "I take care of them at home, you take care of them at school. Don't bother me with your part of it."
Parental involvement is essential in any good education!
If the teachers and administrators don't take care of kids while at school they're not doing their job. How are parent supposed to "be involved" unless the parents are welcome at school all day every day ? No school I know would permit this.
IMO a parent's job is to deliver the kid well-rested, appropriately fed and with homework completed to the school. The school should take it from there for the rest of the day, then the parent should pick up again in the afternoon and reinforce what the school has done. How is a parent supposed to communicate with 6-7 teachers every day about these matters especially when the teachers have maybe 150 kids for which they are responsible for some part of the day ?
There is no way the parent can be "involved" at school except as a helper - parents are not permitted to dictate curriculum, teaching methodology or discipline techniques to the school unless there is an injury involved. If the parent has no say in those, the parent has no place except as a supporter of whatever the school chooses to do.
What I think you have seen here from many of us is that we don't approve of many things the schools do. For example, if I want my child to be taught to read using the phonetic method, that's too bad for us if my local school for which I'm forced to pay taxes uses the whole word method instead. I have no input that will immediately correct that situation and all I can do is vote with my feet. If a teacher permits student on student harassment in class, will the administrator back up the paent when the parent complains ? In my experience, unless the harassment rises to a very high level it's condoned by the schools.
My daughter had a classmate in 4th grade who pushed her down steps, pushed her hands against a hot register causing mild burns, and threw paint on her in art class. I went to the school time after time to remedy the situation and was told that the other girl came from a broken home where the father and the mother were in prison for drugs and who knows what else and the girl was in foster care. They were giving her counseling and hoped that would resolve the situation. After the burn incident I told the school if they didn't take immediate steps to physically keep the child away from my daughter I was calling the police right there from the principal's office and filing charges. How can a parent trust anything done in schools or any administrator associated with the school if the most basic criteria, personal safety, is not respected ?