I said I see the answer here. I live about six blocks from school. This summer, when I walk those blocks, I see mothers taking their own children to the park, to the pool, or for a walk. During the school year a music concert, grade or high school, cannot happen without parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles filling the seats. It is the same scenario at school plays, Christmas programs, and sporting events, grade junior high or high school.
Parents go out of town, in town, in the sun, rain, sleet or blizzard.
Here parents still put in the time and earn the right to a influential relationship with their children. And that carries over to the school. We can always choose to pay someone to spend time with a child. And we do. But those cases where real relationships happen change kids.