Powerful stuff.
Do you think that at some point in the past 20 - 30 years parents started
drifting away
from a more hands on approach to their kids education?
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> -...and from the blog on that doc, this is the real story about education:
>
> I know if I sit on top of kids and work WITH them vs telling them, they'll do
> it. It worked
> for things like spelling or if I (we) sat by vs heading out at night. Not
> their grades are
that
> great but I expect them to do well in the future... read the following.
>
>
> October 23, 2007
>
> America's First Challenge - Parental Responsibility
> As you view Two Million Minutes one of the most obvious differences seen in
> India and
> China in the education of children has nothing to do with the school system
> whatsoever.
>
> In India and China, parents take primary responsibility for their child's
> education.
Parents
> set high expectations for academic achievement, they require studying be
> done, they
> make academic excellence the most important aspect of life at home.
>
> Indian and Chinese parents organize their own lives around making certain
> their child is
> studying, getting extra tutoring, developing their intellectual skills to the
> highest level
> possible. They invest a lot of time, energy and money in their own child's
> education.
>
> Indian and Chinese parents treat academics the way many American parents
> treat
sports.
> In America, it is common for parents to spend money on extra coaching or a
> sports
camp
> or better equipment. Parents get engaged on their child's sports program -
> traveling to
> games, volunteering to help coach, donating money for better athletic
> facilities. And
they
> celebrate athletic achievement with pride, compliments and encouragement.
>
> Indian and Chinese parents put the same emphasis on academics and
> intellectual
> preparation. As the father of the Indian student Aproova so eloquently puts
> it - "My
> responsibility as a parent is to ensure that my daughters are globally
> competitive and
that
> they can face the world fearlessly and able to compete."
>
> How many American parents, when asked what their role is in their child's
> education
> would answer "to ensure that they are globally competitive"?
>
> How many American parents have given much thought to their role in their
> child's
> education and then taken concrete action?
>
> In India and China, parents are deeply involved in their child's education -
> and that
seems
> to make a profound difference in how much their children learn in school.
>
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