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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @06:49AM
If you've got a safe nest egg then great, but isn't real estate much faster? That 200k can be used for four down payments of 50k and you can end up with 4k a month after all expenses if you invested nationally (your local real estate market costs may be much higher than other areas). Once you find those four properties you can retire a simple life on 4k a month. Though chances are you'll keep going. In a few years your tenants will have paid enough principle that you can refinance and buy more houses without costing you another penny of your money. That effect snowballs and you can ride it until you hit your risk limits. Then you sit and wait 1-2 decades and as your mortgages start being paid off, your semi-passive income triples. Now you're over 10k a month, usable for whatever you want rather than keeping it locked up until retirement.
I agree with you that people should be taught way more life skills than they are and I'm glad there's more than one way to get good money. But Boy Scouts can teach you a very wide range of skills. I'd tell you to just go buy the merit badge books if you can't join, but all the info is available on the internet. You can teach yourself anything nowadays. But knowing that you can/should and finding the drive to do so is difficult. There's far too much learned helplessness in the world.