"that is precisely what the upper class parents do when they send their children to boarding school!!"

Perhaps. Apart from all the dosh they fork out.. ;-)

It's still very prevalent assumption amongst working class families in particular however, that their children's education has absolutely nothing to do with them. In my own experience, there was great resentment from some families that parents should ideally help their children to read before going to school, or that they should bother to supervise or assist them with their homework.

I'm speaking from personal experience, where some of my own family and my partners (working class) were either actively obstructive in some instances or dismissive of the schools requests for any kind of parental effort to aid and participate in their children's schooling.

By contrast the children of those middle-class families I knew in my peer group (not necessarily exceedingly wealthy ones) took time out to get involved. The kids from the middle-class families in the private estates tended to go on to do A'Levels, while the kids from working-class families in the council estates tended to leave at 16.

As I was at a secondary modern with a catchpool of both middle classes and working classes, I can bare witness to the difference in both attitudes of parents and resultant successes or otherwise, of their children at the same school.

This thread possibly doesn't have much baring on what happens at boarding school, where children are err 'at school' all the time. So parents don't have an active role in their childs education, or indeed in *any* of their child's daily life.