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Originally Posted by Ashartus
I think that's one of the biggest challenges children have in school. I lost count of how many times my wife tells me she talked to the parents of a kid who is struggling with reading, asking them to read together at home, and the response invariably seems to be "I don't have time for that."
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Sometimes parents don't have time to be fully involved as they would like. I'm a single dad and with a full time job/house to maintain, I just don't have the bandwidth to do what I am being asked to do. Field trip supervision, school council, volunteering at events......I get requests to help out all the time. I just can't. 20-30 years ago most of my friends in school had one parent at home that was able to do all the things requested. Today, when I go pick up my kids from school about half the people there for pick-up are grandparents because the parents are at work. Teachers and administrators need to understand and understand quick that it is not because parents don't care, its because we are being stretched thin in almost every other way.