Why aren't you more involved in your child's education? If you are involved why do you think this is important

Question

Teachers are encouraged to promote parental involvement but some parents just don't want to be involved. PTA meetings and teachers conferances seem to be two things that most parents hate. Why is this? How could teachers be persuaded to participate more often?

Answer 1

why are you assuming we're not involved in our childrens' education?
have you surveyed every PTA meeting in America?

nice way to start off what I assumed was going to be an intelligent conversation on education.
put me right off the main topic and onto why you'd start off coming off as a (pardon me) jerk.

Answer 2

To be honest, I think school is a way for some parents to get rid of their kids for 8 hours a day. It's a very inexpensive form of daycare. Parents don't want to be involved because they do not want to take the time out of their schedule to do it. Not only that, but I think some parents would like the schools to raise their children.

As far as teacher's participation, they are swamped as it is. Many teachers already do a lot of their school work outside of school hours and they do not make nearly enough money for the kind of responsibilities that they have. To ask them to become more involved in PTA's is asking them to do a lot more work than they already do with no more compensation.

Answer 3

I am very involved in my children's education. I try so hard to be because the teachers try harder for my children because they know that I care very much. My children are in the care of the school for 8 hours of the day, and by time they've gone to sleep I've only had 4 hours with them. I like to be a part of those 8 hours. Parents could be more persuaded to be involved if the teacher comes out and says why it's important to each individual parent. Peer pressure works on adults too.

Answer 4

Parents work all day, they are tired, sometimes two jobs.
Some parents have 'delegated' the job of educating the children to the schools/teachers. Work all day, cook, clean, do laundry, mow the yard, change the oil, pay the insurance, change the baby's diapers.
Most parents are stressed and overworked already. Besides, what do parents and kids get out of PTA? I have felt the meetings were ineptly run, useless and unproductive. That was years ago. I chose my own ways to be involved.

Answer 5

PTA is a socio-political organization that only benefits those who are part of the clic! PTA is too clickish. Teacher conferences are usually dreaded because that is when the teacher uses time to tell you how bad or stupid your child is. It is their time to vent. Why could they not call me when they failed the first test or missed the first class or be involved so we can correct the mistakes before we get to mid terms and conferences.

Answer 6

Im a teacher and actually im lucky in a way. My school has to make meetings fun to get parents to come. We have movie Night, parents night out, fly a kite day, story day. anything that we can think of to get the children happy and excited so the parents will be as well. It dont always work but its better then no parent participation.

Answer 7

I'm am fully involved in my sons education. If he does bad, I want to hear it. I don't like parent conferences, as it was a constant thorn in my side in preschool. At least once a week, I would hear something bad, and I got tired it hearing it. The whole experience left me with thoughts that no one had anything good to say about my kid.

Things are different now. I have different counselors, who are more focused on the positive, instead of the negative.

Answer 8

Its because nowadays parents think that their children are perfect and dont want to hear otherwise. I remember I dreaded conferences because if my teacher mentioned I was misbehaving my father would come home and kill me. Now if a teacher mentions a child is misbehaving or having problems- the parents turn and blame the teacher. I feel bad for teachers actually. There are just so many parents who have failed their children by allowing them to believe that they are right and their teachers/adults around them are all wrong. What happened to discipline?

Answer 9

Unfortunately due to the fact that most parents both have employment outside of the home it is difficult to juggle all responsibilities of raising a child. I find it hard to always have the time to be involved.

Answer 10

parents are not involved cos they did not give much impostrance to their education...so they lack in their childrens...