Mr. Frye, an English teacher at Montclair High School, has asked the parents to read and comment on a Franz Kafka story, Section 1 of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and a speech given by Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

The point, he said, is to keep parents involved in their children’s ’ education well into high school. Studies have shown that parental involvement improves the quality of the education a student receives, but teenagers seldom invite that involvement. So, Mr. Frye said, he decided to help out.

In fact, Mr. Frye has not penalized students whose parents have told him outright that they will not post responses. But in one case, when the parents neither did the homework nor explained why, a student did lose points — but not enough to lower the student’s overall grade, he said.

弗莱先生，这位Montclair高中英语教师，让学生的父母阅读和评论弗朗茨•裴迪南的故事、沃尔特•惠特曼诗歌“我自己的歌”的第一节以及罗伯特F•肯尼迪在1968年的演讲。

对于这一点，他说，可以让父母们更好的参与孩子的高中教育。研究表明父母的参与可以提高学生接受教育的质量。但是学生们从来不主动邀请这样的参与，所以，弗莱先生说他采取了这样的举措。

虽然一些学生的家长直率地告诉弗赖先生他们不会对此项举措表示回应，但实际上，弗莱并未因此而惩罚这些学生。不过有一种情况是例外的，他说这就是——父母们既没有做这些家庭作业也没有解释为什么不去做，这个时候会扣掉学生一些分数，但还不足以降低学生的综合成绩。