re: #39 reine.de.tout

I don’t disagree with you that parental involvement is important.

I am, however, quite stunned by the numbers you cite.

It was pretty demoralizing, that’s for sure. Add on top of that the constant blaming of teachers in the local newspaper along with the sneering and looking down on teachers as a whole, I just couldn’t take it, because I knew just how hard teachers worked to educate children. I knew how much time they spent agonizing over how to reach the kids in their classroom, how to get a parent to care. It was too emotionally draining for me to care more about a child’s education than their own parents did and then get bashed for it. So, surprised about the statistics? Not me.