tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856792.post-1119098648455630892005-06-18T08:40:00.000-04:002005-06-18T08:45:16.710-04:00This year's MetLife <a href="http://www.metlife.com/Applications/Corporate/WPS/CDA/PageGenerator/0,2752,P288,00.html">survey</a> includes an important chapter on parent involvement in middle and high school. I need to look more closely at it, but this finding jumped out at me: "According to two-thirds of secondary school principals (66%) and half (47%) of new teachers at the secondary school level, involving parents is a priority at their school. Students’ perspectives on this issue are slightly different. Parental involvement tends to be more focused on after-school activities. Nearly half<br />(45%) say that their school does a good job of encouraging parental involvement in after-school activities. But this is almost twice as many as say that their school does a good job of encouraging parental involvement in the classroom (27%). And for every student who says that their school does a good job of encouraging parental involvement in the classroom, there is a student who says that their school does not give parents the opportunity for any meaningful roles (24%). <span style="font-weight: bold;">The predominant opinion among secondary school students is that their school only contacts parents when there is a problem with their child (68%)."</span>Adam Kernan-Schlossnoreply@blogger.com