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posted by martyb on Friday October 13 2017, @08:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the it-takes-a-village...-school? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday October 14 2017, @02:51AM (2 children)

    by Whoever (4524) on Saturday October 14 2017, @02:51AM (#582155) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday October 15 2017, @12:23AM (1 child)

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Sunday October 15 2017, @12:23AM (#582446)

    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.

    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.

    Yes, state schools are not perfect.

    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

      by NewNic (6420) on Monday October 16 2017, @06:05PM (#583074) Journal

      That's an understatement. They're a mitigated disaster. Also, I'm not just talking about state schools, but even private schools.

      So, basically, you have no solutions. All you have is blind rage at the existing systems.

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