The intent of decentralization legislation was to permit and encourage parental input into the education process, thus improving learning outcomes.

In an e-mail message this week, he said the work was based on "strong parental input and common-sense experience."

In this model, although parental input has a critical role, children rely on cognitive processing to establish subsequent use of words.

But for decades, she says, the system, which is responsible for 1.4 million children, has lacked parental input at the policy-making level.

"The board meetings where they ask for parental input have been a farce."

The same would happen if they all went to their local school as you can't get rid of the parental input so easily.

At which point they'll need parental input.

We find no real relationship between parental input and girls' achievement.

The parental input just becomes more relevant for the boys than for the girls.

"Boys' likelihood to 'act out' is sharply reduced when faced with larger and better parental inputs," said the study.