Parent and Community Engagement: Has its Time Finally Come?

There have been recent and older discussions about having this unified system where students, parents, and teachers work together to increase academic success for the children instead of putting the responsibility on the school alone. The responsibility should be ideally spread out to everyone involved in the child's life and adults should model behaviors that are going to benefit the child. However, this is not a perfect world and not every child may have the best influences in their lives, and not by choice. I believe that if educators can learn about their students on a more personal level, then they could help them more and get the results they want to see out of the students. In theory, it should be a simple equation to get everyone involved, but because of whatever issues families may face, some priorities are just pushed to the side and not focused upon. In order to get America back on track to a successful future in the global market, everyone needs to step up their game and get the job done to keep our national pride in hand. There are too many other nations that are slowly but surely within competitive reach with the U.S. and we, as the best nation in the world cannot be ok with that.