Parents Perspective Towards their Children's Education

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Parental involvement refers to the amount of participation a parent has it comes to the schooling of his/her children. In this study we discovered the plans of the parents towards their children's education.

METHODS

Using a quasi-experimental research design, it involves two hundred fifty-five parents from Brgy. Calumpang Placer Masbate. The respondents were given survey questionnaires to know their socio-demographic profile in terms of occupation, income, no. of children and educational attainment. Interviews were also conducted to know the plans of parents towards the education of their children and the reasons behind it.

RESULTS

It reveals in the study that there are no parents who wanted their children to finish Elementary Education; it's about 4.31% or 11 out of 255 respondents who wanted their children to finish Junior High School only for this is because they don't have the financial capacity to support higher education; 48.65% or 124 respondents who wanted their children to finish Senior High School because they wanted their children to have work right away to help the family financially and its about 47.04% or 120 who wanted their children to finish College. The sole reason of parents who wanted their children to finish college is to have a better future. This implies that most parents opt to have their children in senior high school only due to finances.

DISCUSSIONS

The result showed that parents should give their full support to their children's studies despite their situations. A parent should look and avail free college education, scholarship, and other programs that would help their children to be in school. The government must provide seminars/orientation to parents on the importance of education to their children.