These case studies were very interesting because they showed what I already knew to be true, the fact that family involvement does have a major impact on achievement especially for students. I think that schooling in itself is a collaborative effort because as a whole it is very challenging both mentally and emotionally and by having people who you can definitely count on for support helps to lessen the stress on the student. Sometimes many students come from broken homes or may be the first in their families to complete a full course of schooling including college and they are under alot of stress and because they feel alone, their grades may start to drop.
One case study that was interesting to me was the one about moral support to struggling advocates within working class families of color, which talked about the different types of support that appear to be present in certain types of families. This case study also reminded me of some people I know that fit into some of these categories. I can understand the morally supportive family person who doesn’t actually have the experience of immense schooling but they understand the difficulty in completing it and they do whatever is possible to help the student. I also see the person who believes in the concepts of education and what it can do for a person so they try to invest their efforts and time as much as possible to make sure that the student gets exactly what they should from their education.
As I said before schooling is something that should involve both the family (whoever may be caring for the child not necessarily a blood relative) and the relationship between the the students-teachers and parents all of these components are major I believe it can determine how far a child can go or how much they can achieve in school.
Why would certain schools reject parents involvement and what are the disadvantages to the student if any? In reference to NCLB is it the lack of parental involvement that is actually causing the children to perform so bad on these standardized tests or is it actually the fault of the teachers, who should get more of the blame if any?
