Do garden or yard work. So far, the Project Appleseed campaign has been very successful. As of November 15, National Parental Involvement Day, nearly 3 million parents had signed the Project Appleseed pledge, Walker said. The goal is to recruit 5 million parents by the end of the school year. The benefits are numerous when parents become active in their children's school.
Children learn that school is important enough for their parent to be there.
Increased parent participation plays a very important role in school discipline, Walker said. The whole tone changes when parents get in the picture. When teachers tell parents these kids are becoming uncontrollable, a different conversation takes place when parents get involved. Tiffany Buck, a parent of two school-aged children in Casa Grande, Arizona, liked the pledge. She plans on showing it to the school principal and introducing it at the next PTO meeting.