Parent Check-In/Check-Out, A Student Venture

Abstract

Parent Check-In/Check-Out is a small organization dedicated to streamlining communication between schools and parents by generating partnerships between schools and local grocery stores. Information booths with monthly school newsletters are placed at grocery stores for convenient parent pick-up. Parental engagement in schools is low because parents are constantly working to provide for their families. They cannot make it to their child’s sporting events, let alone pick up their child after school to have a chat with a teacher. School flyers are typically shoved to the bottoms of student’s backpacks, where parents can never receive information. Some families lack internet access and cannot receive school emails. Teachers are frustrated that many parents don’t utilize at-home resources for their child to study from and wish that there was a way for this information to be easily accessible.