Regarding poor families as deficient, seeing only their problems and not their strengths. Reaching out to families is made increasingly complex by the growing number and variety of students' ethnic, economic, and social backgrounds. Teachers who think only in terms of traditional families are likely to have a particularly hard time dealing with today's great variety of family types. That Facilitate Collaboration Parents who don't attend school events don't care about their children's success in school. Parents who are illiterate, non-English speaking, or unemployed can't help their children.
All families have strengths and skills they can contribute to their children's school success.
Parents from different ethnic and racial groups don't understand how to help their children. Parents from different ethnic and racial groups may have alternative and important ways of supporting their children. It is up to parents to find out what is going on at school. Schools have a responsibility to reach out to all parents. Parent involvement is not worth educators' effort.