Show me Successful Children and I Will Show You Loving and Involved Parents

Did you know?
- School age children spend 70% of their waking hours (including weekends and holidays) outside of school.
- The most effective forms of parent involvement are those, which engage parents in working directly with their children on learning activities at home.
- 86% of the general public believes that support from parents is the most important way to improve the schools.
- Lack of parental involvement is the biggest problem facing public schools.
- Decades of research show that when parents are involved students have higher grades, test scores, and graduation rates; better school attendance; increased motivation, better self-esteem; lower rates of suspension; decreased use of drugs and alcohol; fewer instances of violent behavior.
- The more intensely parents are involved, the more beneficial the achievement effects.
- The more parents participate in schooling, in a sustained way, at every level -- in advocacy, decision-making and oversight roles, as fund-raisers and boosters, as volunteers and para-professionals, and as home teachers - the better for student achievement.
- The most consistent predictors of children’s academic achievement and social adjustment are parent expectations of the child’s academic attainment and satisfaction with their child’s education at school.
- Parents of high-achieving students set higher standards for their children’s educational activities than parents of low-achieving students.

Disadvantaged kids can succeed. Wealthy kids can succeed. They can both fail as well. As role models - we opted to be parents - now - what will we do with that privilege?