Too often, the alienation of the home from school reduces the initial expectations. The Flaxmere study, for example, found that, when their children started school, 98 percent of the parents considered that education was very or extremely important to their children's future. Two-thirds of these parents expected their children to attain diplomas and degrees. By the time they left elementary school, these aspirations had been dowsed and the parents mainly wanted their children to “get a job” (Clinton et al., 2007).
