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Parents want teachers to do more when it comes to teaching their children about social and life skills inside the classroom, according to a new report.
The joint study between Monash University researchers and the Australian Scholarship Group (ASG) is the only one of its kind to investigate the state of education in Australia from parents' perspective.
Undertaken by Monash Faculty of Education associate professors Sivanes and Shane N. Phillipson, the report said Australian parents want their children to have access to a "holistic education".
According to the study, 69 per cent of parents believe schools should do more to teach their child about social skills. When ethnicity is factored in, the proportion increases substantially to 94 per cent among Indian and other Asian parents.
Furthermore, 49 per cent of parents agree they would like their child's school to do more about teaching them how to behave in public, which increases to 74 per cent among Indian and other Asian parents.
The mantra "The Corps is mother, the Corps is father" springs to mind.
(Score: 5, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday October 13 2017, @09:57PM (9 children)
We will lose a war because our soldiers are afraid to attack.
When I was a kid I could go anywhere I wanted, provided I was home for supper.
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(Score: 4, Touché) by bob_super on Friday October 13 2017, @10:20PM (3 children)
> When I was a kid I could go anywhere I wanted, provided I was home for supper.
Yet it was still such an oppressive requirement that you later got rid of the whole "home" thing.
Never satisfied, those millen^H old geezers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @10:29PM (2 children)
Maybe the parent(s) kicked him out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @11:59PM (1 child)
No, if you remove the home then his parents ate him for supper. He must be a vampire now too.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday October 14 2017, @12:00AM
My parents didn't eat my brain.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday October 14 2017, @01:02AM
Now, they can't even play sports like baseball in public school (in Ontario) because they might get hurt and have their parents sue the school board. Monkey bars gone: those twirly things that makes kids sick by goin' round and round and round and round.... {ralph}....and round.... GONE!
Helicopter parents again.
Now a kid breaks his arm and DOG ALMIGHTY HEAVEN PARTS AND THE PARENT COMES FLYIN' IN AND AAAAALLLLLL HELL BREAKS LOOSY I'M HOOOOME!!!!!!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Saturday October 14 2017, @01:30AM
I had somewhat more restrictive parents - I was not allowed to venture so deep into the forest that I got lost. Oh, and falling into the river and drowning was also not permitted.
(Score: 4, Disagree) by lx on Saturday October 14 2017, @04:37AM
That's alright then. The US being afraid to attack for a change would be a major improvement in world safety.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @09:47AM (1 child)
When I was a boy we had nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @01:10PM
We called it a lazy Sunday afternoon...