The Big Question: Where do parents responsibilities end and teachers begin?
Join us for the latest in a popular series of education news stories where you provide the comment about issues that matter to you Each week, we speak to the people who count, people like you, and post their opinions on the big issues in the education world. Read it and comment to make it a lively and insightful debate. This week’s question: Where do parents’ responsibilities end and teachers’ begin? Too many parents are neglecting their responsibility for socialising and disciplining their children and handing over this role entirely to teachers. This was the opinion of Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, writing in The Observer, and the theme is echoed at teacher conferences this week. As well as toilet-training children and teaching them how to use a knife and fork, teachers have been blamed by parents for their child’s pregnancy and cannabis smoking, said Bousted. Just under 40 per cent of teachers have been confronted by an aggressive pare
