Only 30 percent of children receive appropriate schooling, expert says
More than half the school children in America are under-served by public schools because parents fail to get involved with their teachers and other school officials, said Joetta Gatliff, an expert in Early Childhood Development for Mustang Public Schools and adjunct OCCC professor.
“Only 30 percent of our children are getting an appropriate education,” Gatliff said, in a free parenting workshop held earlier this month at OCCC’s Family and Community Education Center.
Who are the children who receive an appropriate education? “It’s the 30 percent whose parents are involved,” she said.
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