However, society has changed, and we've become busy, busy bees.
The lack of parent involvement in schools first hit me in my ED2500 class. I had a teacher from a completely different class approach me and ask if I would be able to help out with a school field trip. I said sure and she asked me if any other student teachers would also be available to help. I was curious as to why she was asking me to go along on the field trip when I wasn't even her student teacher, and she told me that in a class of 26 children, she had 1 parent volunteer for the field trip. This was astonishing to me. Field trips usually aren't possible without a few parent volunteers, but I couldn't believe that only 1 parent volunteered.