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if a child fails in school who is to blame? the parent, student or teacher?
It's only a matter on opinion. When I reading Tiger Mother Chua stated that an Asian parent would always side with the teacher if their child isn't doing well. Western parents are more likely to rebel against the school.
Thomas Jones 100+
If you answer that, you answer the question.
[SIDE NOTE: Success in school is often an overrated ideal. It is not always a predictor of future success. There's more to it than that. But, to quote, Robyn Stockand, "The use of school grades at any educational level as predictors of future success is so mutable to be meaningless."]
Maggie Lan
If one keep learning at every phase of his life, we can't say that he's a failure.
Taylor Kendal
Scott Armstrong 50+
Who decides what is measured? For what purpose?
What form does assessment take that best benefits the advancement of the learner's skill-base and knowledge?
Or is assessment a government tool for the purposes of administration?
A parent instills more in their nonchalant attitudes than 1000 teachers can hope for in their purposeful instruction.
Cheyenne Lin
Frans Kellner 100+
olina yang
Erin Ashley
Erol Toksoy 10+
dong xinliang
Free Spirit
Because the school, the parent, the kid, the teacher are all false in the monetary system.
Of course someone will say a kid can never be false but just think of the toys we buy them they are pure reflection of the materialistic world that we live in. We are just creating new consumers and teach them greed from the swing. 'cause the only efficient quality of today's world is greed.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
E G 10+
Matthieu Miossec 100+
Andres Ricardo Chamarra
Renzo Bruni
Frans Kellner 100+
There are different kinds of learning and also different kinds of children. You can train children like you do your dog or the workelephant and that was called learning in in my parents days and often still exist in Asian countries. Training often lacks any respect for the child while there is in the world no other creature that wants to learn so badly.
If children are given due respect and love they will learn a manifold than they could otherwise. Given though that you provide the circumstances and opportunities to learn and follow the talents and character natural to any child.
The same goes for animals as well as we often see nowadays.
Christophe Cop 500+
All of the above, and other reasons can be a cause of failure at school...
- Disinterest of the parents in their child's education
- Too crowded classes
- Bad teachers
- Child's stupidity, lack of concentration, motivation, illness or accident, too easy (child is bored),...
- Bullies (being successful in school is not always appreciated by peers)
- Bad education system (lacking pedagogy, wrong educational program,...)
- ... (there are other reasons I assume)
I do think that, on average, the stereotype you describe is correct. Though historically, two generations ago, parents did listen and agreed to what teachers said, at least in Belgium (and per extenso Western Europe guess)...
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Erin Ashley