My father was in the army, so my sisters and I, all went to boarding school at 11. As my father was posted to Germany and then Malaysia, they had few opportunities to play an active part in our education and in the 1950s, parents didn't anyway. No parents evenings and only termly reports.
The most disconcerting thing was that they just assumed we would do well, so when we had any educational achievement to be pleased about - passing 11+, O levels, A levels, they just took it for granted. No celebrations of any kind. In fact my mother almost complained that she was held in awe, with a bit of fear because she had such clever daughters, my youngest sister had just passed her 11+, my younger sister was doing O levels and I was doing A levels, with university in mind. Most officers daughters left school after O levels, did a secretarial course and then lived at home and hoped to attract the eye of one of the junior officers and marry them.
Worse/better still was another posting by which time I was at university and when home got invited to all the social events with my parents because I was over 18. People meeting me would ask me what I did and I would say i was at university, they would then ask me what I was studying and I would say 'economics' and everyone would avoid me for the rest of the evening.