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, @02:29PM
It's called CIVICS. There is a few ways to learn these
1. your family
2. your friends
but if you have fucked up family and you hang around fucked up people, then where do you learn it? Prison? Prison tends to be not such a good place to learn things.
It is should be responsibility of society to transfer generally accepted, good values to kids, at least as much as possible. We call this EDUCATION. This should include basic behavioural norms, especially for kids with fucked up families. When someone is stuck in a cesspit, it's better to throw them a rope when you are walking by, unless you prefer to get hit by shit instead.