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America’s higher education system is ranked as one of the world’s best, but there are great disparities in the country’s K-12 public school system. Performance rates at schools differ across the country and even in the same state. Two students in the same town may receive a totally different education based on the school they attend.
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Parent's Role Completes The Circle of Education
The Educating of a young mind takes a full circle effort that includes 3 elements of participation in order for a child's education to produce a well educated graduating student.
The 3 Elements of Participation that ensures a child is well educated are: The Educational Environment, The Child, and The Parent.
The Educational Environment
Schools provide a physical location for the teacher's use to present educational material to students, and it's the physical location of this school that provides the course material, and the educational design of all the required courses that are presented to the child, representing 1/3 of the full circle of education.
The Teacher simply provides the mapped out 12 years of scheduled courses that equal a full education for all children that attends the school. The Presentation of the material to the student is all that a teacher is responsible for, yet, each teacher ought to use their own unique individualism to represent the manner in which any particular teacher present the lessons to their students.
The Child
The Child, being the point of interest of the full circle of education, has the responsibility of being physically present in the teaching location to receive the initial presentation of the educational material.
The Child responsibilities are to be attentive and willing to receive the information, but, not to the extent that the child is in a life or death scenario perspective, but, a perspective with understanding that the child is responsible for paying attention to what is being presented by the teacher.
The Child's 3rd of the full circle of education is the third that represent the results of the total circle of education effectiveness, in that, the child represents the results of all parts working together.
The Parent
The Parent is the most important third of the full circle of education, in that, it's the parent's responsibility to represent the organizer and enforcer of the child's education.
The Parent's role is to interact with both the child, the teacher/s, and the educational material itself.
The Parent responsibilities seals the circle of learning by verifying and validating that the child attended school, checks the child's home work assignments, ensures that the child does the home work assignments, tests the child's understanding of the home work, and if the child doesn't convince the parent that he/she understands the assignment, then the parent assists by teaching the child at home.
The Parent's role is the role of validation, and when the child's understanding of a specific lesson isn't acceptable, the parent either teaches the child from the book provided or the parent contacts the teacher to gain guidance or understanding of the lesson and then teaches the child.
Essentially, the Parent's role is to provide a secondary teaching environment for all lessons that a child studies at school, and when the parent and child are unable to understand the lesson, then the Parent's responsibility is to take charge, communicate with who ever, to ensure that the parent understand so that the parent provides a 2nd source of knowledge for the child, in that, the child now has knowledge at both locations or in 2/3rds of the 3 elements of education.
The Full Circle of Education Is Complete
The Teacher, Child & Parent, all have specific roles in the education of a child, with the Parent playing the most significant role, a role that must provide the validation of understanding of all lessons introduced in the school environment.
If all 3 elements of the circle of education participates correctly, a child should develop a great foundation of learning such that, by the time the child gets to the 9th grade, the parents role will become more of a supervisory and good communicator, because the habit of learning will have been instilled in the child.
A School is just a physical location that is used to present educational material to a child, it is the child that learns the material, and it is the parent that tests the child's understanding of the material.
The Parents are not being held accountable for their roles in the child's education, and when a child fails, it's the parent who must look in the mirror first, because every lesson that the child failed, it was the responsibility of the parent to ensure that the child understood that lesson, and when the parent fails in reinforcing learning, the child fails.
Parents are the most important factor in every child's education, and it's the parent who must be held accountable.
In My Opinion
ASMFMB
6/10/2012
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