Each student record should automatically list the parents (resides with) as the primary emergency contacts. At present, this section remains blank until the parent adds contacts using the manage phones or manage emails buttons. This isn't intuitive to most users. If, the information was automatically added to the emergency contract tile, then parents could be instructed to REMOVE/UPDATE the contact information. If they do nothing, then at least the default parent contact infomration will be listed for emergency contacts.
Agreed; there is so much opportunity for improvement with Emergency Contacts (including changing the School Form so that the information provided can apply to ALL siblings by default instead of requiring a separate form for each child). K12CO-I-522 is a similar idea so please consider merging / voting on it as well!