Single-Parent Involvement Analysis

Introduction There are a lot of issues that affect educational needs of the community, school, and children. The lack of parental involvement is one of those issues. Education is a major stepping stone in the development of children. According to Fajoju, Aluede, and Ojugo (2016), “Children’s education is not expected to be left in the hands of school administrators and teachers alone but also in the hands of everyone, most especially the parents and the child’s immediate family members” (pg. 34). There is an old saying that “it take a village to raise a child.” This means that parents, teachers, and the community need to come together, and work together in order for children to be successful in school. All educational needs cannot be left up to the teacher to provide. Parents need to also work with their children. Parents need to have a positive working relationship with the teachers and …show more content…
According to County Health Ranking (2016), “Out of 4,505 families in Dodge County, 1,825 are from single-parent households.” This is 41% of their families in the county.” Dodge County is made up of several small cities. 41% is a large amount of single family homes. As time go on, we are seeing more and more single family homes. With this information presented, Dodge County needs to encourage more parental involvement in their children’s education.
Importance of Parental Involvement Working with the school system, teachers are able to see the lack of parental involvement. According to Thompson, O’Neel, Gonzales, and Fuligni (2016), “Parental involvement in education –at home and at school- has been shown to be an important component of academic success (Hill and Tyson 2009), even among middle and high school aged adolescents” (pg. 1065). Students tend to do better in school when they have parents that show interest in their education.

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