<p>Bay, I feel it’s not so much parental participation as it is in providing the environment like love, food, shelter, safety, and values like the importance of the 3Rs. For the latter I mean, if the only thing our schools taught was rap music, but it was mandatory, the message my kids would have received from us (and their peers in our social circle) would have been to do as little as possible, and spend their time in what we considered was worthwhile.</p>