Schools have re-opened and with that comes a fresh pack of questions and some worries for both educators and pupils as the year begins with problems on one hand and targets and goals to be reached on the other hand.
A number of teachers have expressed their worry about the growing culture of ill-discipline and laziness that they have noticed among pupils over the past few years. The current direction of the education policy stipulates that teacher and learning should be the result of efforts from three spheres which include teachers, learners and parents alike, however, this goal seems to be far reached for some educators. “We are calling on all parents to actively participate in a child’s education, we cannot stress this enough. “When we ask for parental involvement, we are not referring only to homework but also to discipline and motivation. “Other than poor results, our job is more difficult because children misbehave yet we are unable to punish or discipline them and worse of all, they influence each other negatively at this young age. “We try our best to motivate the children but we cannot do it alone. “One of our biggest problems is developing their thinking skills and another issue is getting homework done, so we have
“We are calling on all parents to actively participate in a child’s education, we cannot stress this enough. “When we ask for parental involvement, we are not referring only to homework but also to discipline and motivation. “Other than poor results, our job is more difficult because children misbehave yet we are unable to punish or discipline them and worse of all, they influence each other negatively at this young age.
“We try our best to motivate the children but we cannot do it alone. “One of our biggest problems is developing their thinking skills and another issue is getting homework done, so we have learnt as a school that a majority of pupils live with their grandparents thus they don’t get as much support. “To add on to the problem, some children have been exposed to alcohol and other substances during pregnancy and the developmental issues become evident during this phase. “So we would like to think that parental support and participation would make a great difference both to us as educators and to the development of the child,” said Moipone Kgakgathiba an educator in the junior phase.
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