The nation’s public school teachers said they...

The nation’s public school teachers said they are not getting enough support from parents, according to a recently released survey.

Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, said the survey of 22,000 teachers found a sense of frustration in the classroom, both over “the lack of support they receive from parents” and from a feeling of “powerlessness in teaching.”

Teachers from every state were canvassed in twin surveys conducted by mail in the spring and fall of 1987. Among the findings:

* Ninety percent said lack of parental support was a problem.

* Eighty-nine percent said there were abused or neglected children at their schools.

* Sixty-nine percent said poor health was a problem for their students.

* Sixty-eight percent said some children were undernourished.

Teachers in the survey described their students “as ‘emotionally needy’ and ‘starved for attention and affection,’ ” Boyer said in his foreword to the report, “The Condition of Teaching.”

The average teacher surveyed had 16 years of experience.

Mary Hatwood Futrell, president of the National Education Assn., said the report’s “disturbing statistics” underscore the need for parental involvement.

“Even the best teachers cannot go it alone,” she said. “Teachers need allies. And the allies they need most are parents.”

The Carnegie Foundation, based in Princeton, N.J., said the overall margin of error on the unusually large survey is plus or minus 1%.