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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: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Saturday October 14 2017, @01:36AM (4 children)
There already are, although I'd put the number at hundreds of millions. Pumping out rote memorization drones is not the same as giving people a real 21st century education. Right now, they essentially teach people the absolute basics (basic math, reading, writing, etc.) and fail at doing almost anything else, since understanding the material the schools supposedly teach is not required. All of the standardized tests (like the SAT) are geared towards rote memorization. You have a populace that can recall some facts (but many are still forgotten) but cannot make effective use of any of it.
Getting rid of schools would make the problem even worse, but most people are far from educated (including most of the ones who graduated from a college or university).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @01:51AM
Arrogance is a good substitute in their minds at least!
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday October 14 2017, @02:51AM (2 children)
If you think that there isn't a significant difference between people who have not attended any school and people who have attended state school, you are the uneducated idiot here.
Yes, state schools are not perfect. Yes, they could be improved, but denying state education to millions of kids isn't going to improve anything.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday October 15 2017, @12:23AM (1 child)
I guess you missed the part where I said the problem would worsen if we got rid of schools. Also, X being better than Y does not mean that X is overall good. You can get an absolutely pathetic education in a school and still be more educated than someone who didn't try to get an education at all, yet the fact that your education level is pathetic has not changed.
Furthermore, schools are not the only way to obtain an education. Self-education and homeschooling exist. Information does not exist only in schools, and especially not in the age of information. Just about everyone has access to countless scholarly resources. As such, someone who didn't go to a school is not necessarily uneducated, regardless of what our shallow society has to say.
That's an understatement. They're a mitigated disaster. Also, I'm not just talking about state schools, but even private schools.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Monday October 16 2017, @06:05PM
So, basically, you have no solutions. All you have is blind rage at the existing systems.
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