Contemporary problems of education: the school and the family

Freire (1999) states that: "Education alone does not make society, without it society does not change either. If the option is progressive, if you are in favor of life and not death, fairness and injustice, not right and not arbitrariness, different coexistence and not your denial, not if there is another way if not to live the option you choose. Embody it, reducing the distance between what you say and what you do”. The Romanian education system has experienced major changes in recent years, advancing in some aspects but also creating leverage for contemporary education. A very challenging issue is the involvement of the family in school, as the convivial alienation of the family becomes more evident every day. It is observed that the performance of students whose parents accompany their school development is positively differentiated from students who do not receive such follow-up. The decrease in family participation in the student's school life generates, in most cases, a learning deficit and, therefore, school failure. It is certain that both the school and the family need each other because this interaction must take place to ensure success and good performance. Kant (1993) says that man must be educated and that such education includes two planes: one from outside to inside and from inside to outside. It can be said that the student needs to get involved in the environment that will have the opportunity to transform it, to modify it, so that through this external influence he can internalize this modification and at the same time act constructively on the school environment. The school actually needs to inform, involve, and get closer to the family, and the family needs to do the same to ensure this success.