[kohito]

Lots of people here are pretty certain the "key" to a "successful education" are parents.

But one successful teacher's view is this: "...Like all the teachers I talked to in Washington, Mr. Taylor laments the lack of parental involvement. “On back-to-school night, if you have 28 or 30 kids in your class, you’re lucky to see six or seven parents,” he says. But when I ask him how that affects his teaching, he says, “Actually, it doesn’t. I make it my business to call the parents—and not just for bad things..."

h/t u/jseliger, who linked to a helpful article at the Atlantic, where I'm quoting this from.

[dragonwriter]

> Lots of people here are pretty certain the "key" to a "successful education" are parents.

Most studies I've seen on the topic show that the best predictor of one's educational success and attainment is one's parents educational attainment, so there is something to that that an anecdote from a teacher that, aside from not being a systematic gathering of evidence, doesn't even describe an experience of what drives outcomes, but simply relates a personal practice, isn't really sufficient to rebut.

[Avshalom]

If the teacher's secret sauce is "if the parents aren't involved on their own, I get them involved" that means the teacher's secret sauce is parents.