You may be a snowplow parent if you text or email the teacher every time your child doesn't do well on a test — or if you're often escalating concerns about teachers to principals and superintendents. Prime suspects for snowplow parents tend to be "Room Moms" who staff every book fair, organize class gifts for the teacher's birthday, and chaperone field trips.
Sure, they're saints for offering so much of their valuable time — you don't see many other parents offering to help wipe other kids' noses or staying up until midnight creating a sizzle reel of the best photos from the Halloween parade. But these tireless volunteers' motives may not be entirely altruistic; they may be hanging around the classroom so much so that they can keep an eye on their kids and snowplow away any threats to their academic performance, Beurkens explained. "[T]hat the parent is volunteering at the school, so the parent can jump in at any point. It's under the guise of helping the teacher, but the real motivation is that they want to be there to step in and solve problems," she added.
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