I read with great attention Marco Fortier’s post in The duty from March 2 under the catchy title “But why school? »: the cry from the heart of a “teacher who was not one”. We learn that Simon Bucci-Wheaton, without any teaching experience, became, overnight, the teacher and leader of a sixth grade group.
Throughout his four years as a teacher, Mr. Bucci-Wheaton accumulated notes on the good and bad he encountered, ultimately culminating in the publication of a book entitled But why school? Questions and thoughts from a teacher who wasn’t one.
Among his thoughts, I picked out one that particularly caught my interest, namely the “disinterest” of a good portion of parents in the education of their children. He noticed that parents did not follow up on his messages warning them of significant shortcomings in their child. Some will even blame the teacher if he or she informs them of their child’s lack of effort in class. And the teacher: “There is no framework at home. We leave the children to their own devices and see what happens in class: learning difficulties linked to behavioral problems. »
For several decades now, school has gradually become the receptacle of a shift in the education of children which must be carried out by parents at home, a phenomenon which has become accentuated from the moment when both parents started working outside the home. A family situation which gave rise to a form of resignation on the part of the parents in view of the sense of effort that they should have instilled in their children as a fundamental value in the path which will lead them to the world of work. Consequently, it seems essential to me, even essential, that parents be demanding when it comes to completing school work at home and work closely with their child’s teachers.
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