Is Facebook the new parent-teacher link?
March3
Research conducted by YouGov has revealed that 58% of teachers would like parents to help more with their child’s learning and more than one-third of parents want to be more involved in the youngster’s schooling.
But with half of mothers and fathers only seeing their child’s teacher once a term, parents and staff both said they wanted more opportunities to discuss feedback about pupils in less formal situations than at parents’ evenings.
Two-thirds of mothers and fathers said email would be a good way to discuss any issues, while 22% said they would like to be able to text or swap messages over the internet. One in five parents in wanted to be able to contact their child’s teachers through social networking sites such as Facebook.