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This research identifies parental attitudes towards the secondary level educational performance of students in the Negombo sea-belt, Sri Lanka. Based on the information collected from 288 questionnaire surveys and 10 face-to-face interviews with parents (mothers-fathers dyad), aged between 25 years and 60 years old. In order to measure the progressive-democratic or traditional-authoritarian attitudes of the parents towards child education, it has been used the Parental Modernity Scale of Child Educational Performance. The findings showed that the overall attitude of the respondents was moderately favorable but positive towards education. Furthermore, parental traditionalism was more favorably positive towards education than parenting progressivism for secondary level education. In the interviews, no positivity was demonstrated by parents towards providing more attention in terms of decisions for traditional fishing than their children’s academic future. It is, therefore, a key component of national educational policies and early childhood programs. No plans have been made for the future implications of the policy formulation as well as for further research. |
