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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: 2) by lx on Saturday October 14 2017, @04:44AM (2 children)
No need to put these skills down as "stupid" merely because you can't master them.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday October 14 2017, @04:53PM (1 child)
QWERTY keyboards *are* stupid, it's a fact. Any scientific comparison of keyboard types will quickly show you QWERTY is horribly inefficient and very mechanically bad for your fingers (they have to move and contort too much). There's a reason Dvorak invented his keyboard decades ago, and why other keyboards have also been invented since then like Colemak. QWERTY is garbarge.
I touch type just fine on my Dvorak keyboard though.
(Score: 1) by toddestan on Saturday October 14 2017, @06:09PM
Dvorak is the whole reason I can touch type. After using it long enough, my fingers finally learned where all the letters are, to the point where I can touch type on a standard QWERTY keyboard that's been remapped to Dvorak by the OS. Since the labels on the physical keys are still QWERTY and almost no one seems to even know what Dvorak is let alone the actual layout, it pretty much guarantees that no one can actually use my computer.
Those alternative layouts like Colemak are interesting. As a long term Dvorak user I can agree about many of the warts in the Dvorak layout they point out. But I've been typing on Dvorak for longer than Colemak has been around. Geez, I'm old.