Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Parent Involvement I am currently a teaching student and have been reading about parental involvement in school. I read that it is beneficial to have parent volunteers in order to help you around the classroom but that first-year teachers are sometimes unsure of how to ask for this help. How have you solicited help before and which ways do you find to be the most beneficial? Also, have you ever had a "power struggle" with having a parent in the classroom and if so, how did you go about handling it? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Power struggles are common and some parents refuse to believe that their child is capable of making mistakes and that they need to learn from their own mistakes in order to grow. Parent volunteers can be helpful but also be wary, sometimes they assume that their help merits special treatment for their student as a result.