Schools and Families: The Tie that Bonds.

Bunting, Carolyn

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ERIC Number: EJ410176

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Publication Date: 1990

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Schools and Families: The Tie that Bonds.

Bunting, Carolyn

School Administrator, v47 n6 p16-18 Jun 1990

The decline of the family is well documented and probably irreversible. Parents are using more elective time for self-pursuits that compete for the time and energy needed for child rearing. Parents' reduced accountability to children challenges schools to assimilate a new personal form of responsibility. Schools must support, not supplant, families. Includes four references. (MLH)

Descriptors: Child Rearing, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Problems, Parent Responsibility, Parent School Relationship, School Responsibility

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Language: English

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