Essay On Father Involvement In School

In June of 2000 the National Center for Fathering prepared an analysis of the positive influence a father can have in a child’s education, barriers fathers face, strategies to improve a fathers involvement in education and examples of model programs to maximize the engagement. The article covers the background of parent involvement in school, used to only include mothers, but now it is defined as including fathers as well. Basically no matter the education, cultural background, income, or home situation of the father, when they are involved, children learn more, perform better and display healthier behavior in school; education is more than a mother’s responsibility. To define the measurement of enhanced performance the article states that higher grades, A’s and B’s, enjoyment at school and school activities other than classes. Better attendance, homework submittals, higher graduation rates and an increase the number of students moving on to college. These are all benefits of parental involvement in school. As stated in the article this usually meant that this parental involvement was defined as a mother’s responsibility. The idea that mom shows up to PTA meetings, helps make the outfits for the school plays and in between cooking dinner helps with homework, and warns of trouble “when your father gets home”, is not just outdated, …show more content…
There are a lot of things that can hold a child back, learning disabilities, social anxiety, cultural, or economic reasons, fathers should not be another thing holding them back. Choosing a way to benefit you children can be as simple as just reading to them or listening to their concerns. There are so many reasons to be involved it just doesn’t make sense to not be