Nick Clegg is spot on when he says that parents should be more responsible and we expect a large number of our teachers. “We expect our teachers to become social workers, child psychologists, nutritionists, child protection officer We expect them to police the classroom, maintaining the health of our children, the advice of our children and children -.. Guiding them, worry about them, and, on top of that, educate them too “
Parents problems come in all shapes and sizes. In my experience, people who lived on the estate is not the only one who shouted the teacher, refusing to accept criticism from their children, or rarely finds time to support studies of their children at home. In some cases, very middle-class parents. Worse, sometimes the parents and even teachers at other schools! World of parenting and education is complex and no individual or organization that one can point and shout ‘J’accuse’.
Therefore, most parents in trouble tend to have two things in common: one, they do not believe in good schools because they have bad experiences when they themselves were children in the school system, or they are part of the community who see the system as prejudiced against their children – whether justified or not, and two, some parents do not know how to raise children. To drive a car, you have to take the test. To do the job that you most need some sort of qualification. To adopt or encourage a child, you are required to pass a number of interviews and shows how your qualifications to be a parent. But if your own child? Anyone, quite rightly, be allowed to do that, regardless of whether you can afford to raise children properly.
If you are instinctively suspicious of the school system because you believe people hate you belong to – or just you – it is difficult to believe what the school tells you about the little darling, little darling, especially if you say it isn t ‘so. Often in schools, the most ‘challenging’ children had parents who rarely come to the meeting the parents, if at all. Daily School generally never seen by parents like that, let alone signed weekly, and homework is rarely examined. Too often, children sent to school without breakfast, uniform a mess, and empty their bags of books and pens. If I had a pound for every time I’ve heard to answer my questions about items missing from the uniform – ties, blazers, socks right – “But my mom said it would be ok”, I’d be a rich woman.