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Involve Parents: It may be pointed out that many schools already involve parents in their children's learning, and indeed we recognize have tried to help them by introducing them to books and talking to them about reading. But entry into school itself often marks the beginning of an apparent withdrawal by parents from the realm of their child's 'academic' learning. For their part, schools seldom foster the idea that parents may still have a serious teaching role. Increasingly the responsibility for the child's developing knowledge tends to be taken over by the teachers. Yet this seeming abdication by parents means that children, according to the evidence, are being deprived of a massive and potent source of help.
PACT is an ongoing concern. We hope that parents will continue to be interested, and feel encouraged enough to involve themselves more in reading with their children, joining the local library, and perhaps making their own books, so that the children can listen to, and learn to read, their parents' and their own language.
Presented with findings like these, some teachers may as whether there is anything so new about them after all. Sure we've known it all along - isn't it a matter of common sens* And surely many schools already do involve parents in the children's learning? The answer is that although a few schoo do, the vast majority do not, common sense or no; and very fe) indeed really work with parents in a systematic way, to hel all their children toward an equal chance of benefiting. Mos schools do not seem to believe that such systematic co operation is possible, given parents' differing attitudes anc circumstances.
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