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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The frequent attacks on the entire concept of volunteering at a school is one of the more surprising parts of DCUM.[/quote]

Especially given the correlation between parent volunteering and child academic/life success.[/quote]

I find this difficult to believe. Surely parental education level and income matters more? And highly educated, highly employed parents are not volunteering as much as SAHMs with a BA or even less. [/quote]

I did say correlation for a reason. It may be that families that are likely to volunteer are also likely to be highly involved in their child's academics in general and even if you just took out the part where the parents showed up and did something at school, the kids would still do as well. Nevertheless, the data is there (meta analysis: https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2019-38879-001.pdf)

[quote]For example, school-based involvement, such as participation in parent-teacher conferences, open houses, and other school events, had a positive impact on academics in preschool, middle school, and high school, but the size of the impact was much lower in high school than in preschool. That may be because parents have fewer opportunities to be involved in the high school environment than in younger students’ classrooms where parents might volunteer.
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Parent involvement has led to higher academic outcomes both for children from low and higher socioeconomic status families.[/quote]
(https://www.edweek.org/leadership/does-parent-involvement-really-help-students-heres-what-the-research-says/2023/07)

There's also a bit in that EdWeek article about how being an involved parent helps you have social capital at school to navigate challenges. If you have other ways to build that social capital, then there's less need to be on-hand for PTO events.[/quote]

I can totally see that re building the social capital to navigate challenges. In some cases, we've seen power-seeking moms take these PTA roles as a way to get insider information which they see as an advantage.[/quote]

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