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Most Parents Had Overcome: It looks as though a considerable effort on the part of teachers is called for, to help parents overcome these feelings of mistrust and diffidence. But even the best-intentioned efforts teachers make to meet parents too often fall through. There seem to be several reasons for this. For one thing, meetings held for parents are often run as social events, sometimes with an aim such as fund-raising, sometimes a concert or Christmas play.
It seems, then, that we can identify a number of real doubts and difficulties. We have seen that parents may have some mistrust and diffidence to overcome, and that schools do not necessarily always go the best way about alleviating their anxieties. Schools - and the world of education in general -have been slow to recognize the teaching potential of parents.
There was one parent who had five children whom different teachers were hoping would be heard reading! In one way or another most parents had overcome this kind of problem, but schools do need to recognize difficulties of this nature and be ready to listen and advise each family, so that reading does not become an unpleasant chore.
Despite the pressures, parents believed that the help they were giving their children was all worthwhile and effective:
'It makes him read more; he practises by himself.'
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