We hear a lot of back and forth complaints about parents not getting involved in their children’s schools and about schools not helping parents to stay involved. Well, that doesn’t seem to apply to New Haven School, an elementary in Nelson County.

Thanks to some clever use of digital communications, the father of one Kindergartener in Nelson is keeping right up to speed with what his daughter is doing, even getting “refrigerator art” as soon as it’s created.

The really unusual thing about this school-parent cooperation is the parent, Carl Turner, cannot be physically present at the school. The Kentucky Standard reports Turner is overseas in Kuwait helping provide security for US Department of Defense efforts there.

But, that isn’t stopping Turner from keeping in close contact with his daughter and also providing a unique enrichment opportunity for all the kids in her class as he explains about this very foreign, far off place where he works.

This is a great example of how schools are using digital technology to help keep in touch and improve the lives of students. Hats off to teacher Casey Mattingly for seizing an opportunity where others would have just declared a road block.