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 The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday October 14 2017, @10:51AM (4 children)
Unless whatever way works best for you gets you 90wpm or more, stfu and learn touch typing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday October 14 2017, @04:50PM (2 children)
I can easily exceed 90wpm. I can't do that with strict touch typing; it's a stupid system, because of the stupid QWERTY keyboard, and a great way to get a horrible case of RSI.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday October 14 2017, @06:13PM
Thus the "unless" clause of my statement. If you can manage it, more power to you.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @07:05PM
> I can easily exceed 90wpm
me too, look
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @05:21PM
I also smiled at GP's suggestion of switching to a different keyboard layout.
That's fine--until you encounter a kiosk.
Just for good measure, let's make it a well-used kiosk where the keyboard is QWERTY and the letters on the keys are worn away.
My county library runs Windoze (and Internet Exploder. Ugh!) and has their machines so locked down that even right-click is disabled.
Good luck telling that shit that you would like to use a different keyboard layout.
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