Volunteering Helps Your Child's School and Therefore Your Child

  • Your child’s teacher is able to spend more time with her students because you have relieved her of some tasks.
  • Your child learns that education is important to you by observing your time commitment.
  • Students can get more one-on-one attention from adults, fostering better student-teacher relationships.
  • School climate improves because you have invested your talents.

Volunteering Helps You

  • You learn more about your child’s school.
  • You build relationships with the school staff and your child’s classmates.
  • You gain volunteer community service experience and learn skills that can be useful in other areas of life.
  • You have a better quality of parent-teacher communication.