Negative perception of teacher's work as obstruction of school-parent non-conflict cooperation

Abstract

Parental involvement has a positive impact on children's learning achievement, school attendance etc. There is a lack of research of the parental involvement in school life extent, it's advantages and obstacles in Lithuania. The purpose of the article is to find out the voltage fields in parent-teacher relationship. The data base of National Agency for School Evaluation (NASE) in Lithuania was analyzed: 29358 parents of 175 schools participated in this survey. Parents opinions about the school's activities survey data were analyzed as well. Only parents comments on-line were analyzed and only negative comments were considered. According to the analysis of the survey results, it can be said that the parents' dissatisfaction with the quality of the teaching process gives birth to distrust the quality of school teacher competency, which further alienates parents from school. Such atmosphere of communication based on parents distrust and dissatisfaction are the assumptions of deep conflict situation rather than well-wishing cooperation conductive to parental involvement in children's education.