Parental Involvement in Schools

Parental involvement in schools consists of parents actively participating in their child's academics. There has been research to show that one of the best indicators of student success is their parent's involvement in it. The article "How Parent Involvement Leads to Student Success" discusses this research and many more aspects of why parents that are engaged in their student's learning make all the difference. They stated that it wasn't socioeconomic status or how prestigious the school was that the child went to that made them succeed ,but it was their parent's involvement that gave them the edge up. As mentioned in the article, when parents are engaged in their children's learning and school life the child will develop that support from both school and home. This gives the students the motivation to finish their assignments and sets them up for a lifelong love of learning in and out of the classroom. Therefore, it has proven to be crucial for parents to be involved in their children's learning. Not only will this give more of an ability to succeed, but it will also show the child that learning and academics are important and should be treated as such. Parents that are engaged in their child's academics more than likely have children who are engaged in their own academics as well. 

A father helping his son with homework

In my own experience, from a young age my parents had stressed the importance that academics had in my life. My parents helped instill this nature that school and learning were important and that I should treat them as so. From a young age, I remember taking school very seriously and treating it as a priority in my life. I think by my parents being involved in my learning, I was set up to be a successful student in grade school and in college. My love for learning has since grown exponentially and I have my partly my parents to thank for that love for school. Without their involvement in my academics, I would not be the driven and motivated student that I am today.