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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A NPR story on the radio featuring this article:

http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2014/12/16/54797/pasadena-schools-experiment-with-charlas-to-help-students-by-coaching-their-parents/

"“We found that most forms of parental involvement yield no benefit to children’s test scores or grades regardless of their racial or ethnic background or socioeconomic status.”
Robinson found traditional activities like attending PTA meetings didn’t help.
But he said a few things can make a difference.
“The list of what consistently works is pretty short. That would be expecting your child to go to college, regularly discussing activities that your child engages in at school and requesting a particular teacher for your child,” he said."[/quote]

Really? So they extra teachers, books, resources and specialists that the PTA pays for don't help?[/quote]

This!  The HSA at our school does, and funds, so much.  It is not just for the sake of doing things.  And we need parents to volunteer to help what requests to grant, what aides to hire, and, very importantly, how to raise that money.  It is a hard job and I wish more parents would volunteer.  That said, I get it about not being a joiner.  I wasn't involved in the HSA until someone specifically asked me to do one particular thing to help out - I am much more likely to say YES to something like that than just fill out a form or take the initiative to volunteer without any prompting (but I"m working on it).  [/quote]

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