Parents and the school institution both have a responsibility in the education and instruction of children.
Teachers would like, first and foremost, that parents stop transmitting a disastrous image of the school, and undermine the authority of teachers, in particular by questioning their skills and by systematically and systematically disempowering their children. And as a picture is worth a thousand words:
That the parents rather transmit to their children the taste to learn, the appetite for the culture!
These children then break away from the school system, making the construction of a student-teacher confidence relationship particularly difficult. After that, students no longer grasp the tools you give them, or even break them into pieces. So let's remember some basic elements:
● First, professors are specialists in their subject: they have advanced education, have a state diploma, and teach hundreds of students each year, so they know what they are doing.
● Secondly, the student has some responsibility, as does the socio-cultural and emotional environment in which he / she grows up (those who say that college teachers do not care about their students, while prep class teachers are awesome in bad faith, they pretend not to see the differences in social profiles between the students of some colleges and the preparatory classes ...).
Then, - and there I do not speak anymore on behalf of teachers but on my own behalf, and that of those who join me - it would be good if children are no longer enthroned as absolute masters of the home, and learn again concepts that will appear prehistoric to some, like:
• The value of effort, of merit.
• Questioning.
• Frustration.
It is important to love your children, to want the best for them, it is necessary to be benevolent, but it seems to me that the monarchy in diapers has caused enough havoc. I think we understood the lesson.
However, it is also clear, in my opinion, that the school also needs to improve in what it transmits:
It is clear, for example, that it does not help enough students to make full use of their potentialities, by soliciting only the memory intelligence, while there are other forms of intelligence. This can help to give students a degraded image of themselves. It is an evolution to lead in high places. To illustrate this idea, I let you observe this amusing illustration that you may know:
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The school must also work to make more connections between school learning and the world of work, by teaching the children resourcefulness (easy to say, certainly!), By helping them to develop their practical sense, and perhaps by multiplying internships in companies, which would be the subject of debriefings in class, and not just an internship report.
The school could also encourage students to develop their emotional intelligence: understanding and controlling their emotions, empathy.
The school must continue to promote social bonds, by helping young people to develop their social intelligence, around artistic and sports activities organized by the school outside the classes and outside the classrooms.
That said, the school must also, from kindergarten, consolidate fundamental learning, and it seems to me - oh how! - essential: "read, write, count, respect others", as our minister rightly says.
In short, parents and the school institution must work together for the success of our children. When one is a parent, to discharge oneself of responsibility and to discharge one's child at the same time, while charging the teacher as much as possible, is not only not a solution, but it is harmful for the pupils.