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Abstract
The present study was aimed at assessing attitude of parents towards the education and schooling of their children. The study analyzed the data from 150 parents, who had one or more than one school going children. The age range of the sample was 25-35 years, and these respondents all belonged to erode district consisting of huge population. A 30- item questionnaire was used for collecting data along with personal interview. The respondents were required to indicate their agree or disagreement with each of the statements about children’s education in a five-point Likert type scale, where 1 denotes strongly agree 2 denotes agree 3 denotes neutral 4 denotes disagree and 5 denotes strongly disagree. Mean scores were calculated for the male and female respondents. The findings showed that the overall attitude of the respondents was moderately favorable and positive towards schooling and education of their children’s. The study suggested that, although government endeavors at universalizing education has resulted in creating mass awareness and positive response towards schooling and education, there is a lot of scope for improvement in this regard. The study indicates the clear idea about parents attitude towards schooling and education for their children’s Future implications of the present study for policy formulation as well as for further research were pointed out.