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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Does parental involvement play any role in educational excellence, or can The Village do it all by themselves?
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IME, it depends. FWIW, the trajectory of my own experience went from parental leadership that was, at best, characterized as "salutary neglect" to a spiraling dynamic of intense opposition and intentional acts of sabotage. (Not for nothing is
The Orestia my favorite work of classical literature.) Fortunately, onlookers in "the village" stepped in at key moments, I had some awesome instructors, and
I had a subscription to the Newsletter of the Samuel L. Jackson Institute for Young Men to keep me focused.
My pie in the sky is this. I'd like to see a three-legged stool approach in which a student's parents, teachers, and "village" provide the legs and the student's own efforts the seat on which she/he can sit and focus on learning. (IMO, the most important of these three legs is the teachers. YMMV.)