Teacher meetings 'rare'
The YouGov research reveals that half the parents questioned spoke to their child's teacher once a term – primarily at a parents' evening or through notes passed on by children or by letter.
However more than half of the teachers questioned and more than two-thirds of parents polled said they would welcome more contact by email while more than a quarter of parents wanted to be able to text or correspond with their children's teachers through social networking sites on the internet.