Parental involvement in education is very important. When parents are involved in their child's education it helps the child. It helps the child stay in school longer, stay more focused, and come to like schooling more. Parent involvement could change a students attitude in a positive way, and help their grades.

Parental involvement is very essential for a students academic success because, if the parent is involved and actually cares about their child's education then the child will try harder and will attend school more and on time and actually will want to be at school so they can learn something new everyday. If parents were not involved and did not show any care for their child's education, then why would the child care about their own education?

Are there any barriers that might prevent parents from being involved? There could be a transportation issue. Maybe the parent (s) do not have a vehicle, or maybe they do not necessarily have the money to drive to their child's school to be involved. The parent might also work two jobs to keep food on the table and a roof over their child's head. However, they can still be involved at home. Once the child gets home, the parent (s) can be involved then by helping them with homework and encouraging them. There is always some way a parent can be involved.

Teachers and schools can help by linking family and community engagement efforts to student learning. There are also after school programs for students, so if the parent does work late, then they can still be involved somehow.

Some of the things I would do in my classroom to keep the parents involved is, I would maybe give my students a homework assignment that required them to seek their guardians help such as a questionnaire or an interview. Just something like that to get their guardians involved. If I was teaching younger students then I might send each student home with a book that they could read to their parents at night before bed. I would also do some fun activities in the classroom like small lunch parties where the students could invite their parents, do like a show and tell type thing and then have some snacks.