But, again, he misrepresents volunteerism in behalf of school projects, which is an excellent idea, as parent involvement which is an individual thing. It was expected. I remember taking final examinations in which my parents actually sat in the same room where I was taking a test. He wants to use parents as proctors and make them think it is parental involvement. A good, but misleading, public relations stroke.
Some parents resent the idea of being compelled to help out.
My wife and I volunteer a lot of hours to a lot of different causes on behalf of our children. It's not the government's role to tell me how to volunteer. It is clear that the superintendent's volunteerism program is at odds with the parent involvement that produces results for teachers, students and parents. To the extent that the two things are confused, parents will be distracted from the latter by the former. Some of the superintendent's own principals question this volunteerism proposition.