Are Schools Failing Our Children With Their Education?

In the United Kingdom there are more and more children leaving school without the essential reading and writing skills. This is a very worrying trend and something that needs to be looked into as a matter of urgency.

It is very difficult to just blame certain individuals or organisations but it must be down to one or a few different combinations of the following.

1: Government: 2: Schools 3: Parents 4: Lifestyle

I believe that all four or the above play a major role and I will explain why I think this below.

Governments have a responsibility to provide each and every school with the necessary funding and suppoert,so are they meeting their own targets? Do the government need to give teachers more intensive training before letting them loose in the classroom

With the funding provided to the schools being spent in the right places and on the right things? Are the teaching staff qualified enough for the post? Are teachers becoming more and more disallusioned with poor working conditions and poor salary? Are teachers hands tied when it comes to classroom discipline?

Parents also have to take some of the responsibility, obviously there are parents around that just do not care whether or not their child leaves school with an education or not but the majority of them do.Years ago when we had the "traditional family", dad went out to work and mum stayed home to look after house and kids and people generally had more time for their children, ate meals together, bedtime stories and so on. Today is a totally different matter with the majority of families having to have both mum & dad going out to work just to earn a living and thus not being able to give their children the time that they used to be able to do a few years ago.

Lastly we have "Lifestyle Choices", how can this affect a child's education? Well, we now live in the "computer age" where the majority of children now have access to all sorts of wonderful "gadgets", play stations, computer games, ipods, mobile phones etc. Whatever happened to the old traditional books & bedtime stories? In my opinion Lifestyle Issues play a major part in our children's education, there are just not enough children today that pick up a book and go off for an hour or so to read, sad but true.

Can this trend be reversed? Only time will tell but ultimately it must be down to every parent in the country to want better for their child and make the effort to spend more time with their child and encourage more reading especially in their early years.

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Judith Cuddihy has an Honours degree in adult nursing and has a keen interest in children's studies and makes her own range of children's Personalised Books her Childrens Books are produced in house and can be sent worlwide.

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