Parental Involvement in School and the Role of School Security Measures

Abstract

Over the past three decades, the United States has experienced a significant increase in the use of security measures in public and private secondary schools. Measures including police officers, metal detectors, and security cameras are becoming more common in the hallways of American schools. Following this surge, a number of academics have become interested in understanding how these measures effect outcomes for students, yet little research has sought to explore the impact of security measures on parents. Using data from the Educational Longitudinal Study (2002), the current project explores the relationship between formal and informal parenting involvement with the school and the presence of school security measures utilizing Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) regression. Results indicate the presence of a security guard and metal detectors is related to lower levels of formal parental involvement, all else equal. Security measures were not found to effect informal parental involvement occurring outside of the school proper.

Development of Planning and Organization Model of Community Participation in the Pesantren Based Junior High School

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“…The form of community participation to be part of the education process can also be divided into two, namely formal and informal [12]. For example, parents can engage informally with the education process by helping their children do homework (homework), and school projects.…”

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“…Emerging research shows that parental involvement within the school is an important predictor of the use of school security measures (Mowen, 2013). For example prior studies have shown that schools with more visible security measures have lower levels of some forms of parental involvement compared to schools with less visible and invasive school security measures (Mowen, 2013). These scholars suggest this demonstrates that parents may not support the use of harsh discipline and/or security.…”

“…In a similar line, Addington (2009) shows that parental support for school security tends increase following school shooting events, but then decreases as time passes. Ultimately, this suggest that parental involvement may be a significant correlate of the adoption of school security measures in some schools (Addington, 2009;Mowen, 2013).…”

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