Too lazy or incompetent to do their jobs, the only job they have to do.
Teachers are now aiming at getting the patrents to do their job for them.
Not enough to send the kids home with homework, thereby forcing parents to tech their kids at home.
Now they want parents to teach the kids to read.
Perhaps, the teaching profession should be re-named.....The do nothing profession.
Quote: Parents all-important for reading
JAMES MORROW
THE NSW government’s recently announced ‘phonics checks’ should help reverse declining literacy results, but parents have to play their part to get kids reading.
That’s the conclusion of Kim Hawgood, the lead educator for literacy at 3PLearning.com, which has developed popular online learning programs such as Readiwriter and Reading Eggs.
Writing exclusively in The Daily Telegraph, Harwood says the government’s emphasis on the importance of phonics — where students are taught to sound out letters and eventually words — needs to be supported by parents.
“It’s up to schools, teachers and parents to commit to phonic in the long term”, writes Hawgood.
This will, she says, “ensure this generation of readers are more successful than their forebears”.
Parents, says Hawgood, should communicate with their school to determine how best they can support what is being taught in the classroom.
And there is no substitute for practising words at home and reading aloud with your children, says Hawgood, who advises that the project to learning to read should never seem like a chore.
“Share in the joy of reading with your child as often as you can, and make it fun.”