Parental Responsibity

[PPOV]

We have common voices advocating on the behalf of students & teachers-
1. The SSTUWA has clearly stated the impact on 457 visa kids into schools. No resources from DET. More EAs in upper primary would be a start.
2. SSTUWA continues to highlight injustices to staff and students by an unfeeling employer,but not a lot seems to be happening.
3. WAPPA president, Steve Breen, wrote a brilliant op ed piece in the latest WAPPA rag discussing how schools are having to meet the needs of students and do most of what parents used to do.
Every one of us in a school knows what needs to happen for the kids in our care. The politicians are not working for the kids and schools are left to try and pick up the pieces.

[tutor]

Sometimes schools take it upon themselves to do the work normally done by parents, and paradoxically, expect parents to take on the job  previously done by schools, namely, the academic skills. Increasingly the school timetable is filled up with social and emotional priorities, leaving  fewer slots available for reading, writing and maths.
I worked for several years in a leafy green and often was bemused at the  parenting advice dished out to parents. Are teachers better parents than  the people who send kids to school?

[rob]

Every day teachers are doing the jobs that should be done by parents but are not.  From giving children breakfast to teaching them basic manners and how to treat others. Children are now entering school as the third generation of families that have never worked and never will work. Mix these kids in with children with no English background and from vastly different cultures, then schools will have trouble coping. Won't effect the decision makers children, they would be private school for sure.