I really do not envy my kids or
the teachers who have to do the homework with them at aftercare or in my eldest
sons case his nana, I seriously do not recall having this much work to do when
I was a child and it becomes even more frustrating when you have kids that have
the attention span of a goldfish like mine and so many others I can imagine,
because well the kids have already had six hours of school, they want to run
and play and now you need to get them to sit still for another hour to do
homework… not an easy feat.
When you look at the 30 per cent
pass mark for high school or the fact that there is a significantly large amount of
children dropping out in or before high school in order to work or help support
their families it honestly makes you wonder whether the government is trying to
cram in as much as possible into the younger years in order to ensure that
those who do drop out have some means of basic education to leave with, it is incredibly heartbreaking to look at the statistics, I personally think our primary education is thorough and
excellent my mom even had to keep my brother back a year when we returned from
Canada as our educational standard was a year ahead, obviously I cannot say
whether this is the case in other countries or if it is even still the case in
Canada as this was several years ago but for the most part I don’t feel that
our kids get a bad education up until high school level anyway (I cannot speak
for current high school education I am only speaking from statistical level), I
just feel that they are put under so much pressure for being so young and I
wish they could play more, it was one of the reasons I looked at home schooling
at one stage but my kids need a structure and routine I do not feel I could
properly provide at home and so we decided against it besides that I do need to
work to earn an income.
Anyhoo I really am trying hard to
get my act together as a mom and check every thing every day, I have been told
that from grade 4 it gets really crazy and that I will be sitting with the boys
until all hours and over weekends to complete the tasks and work which is scary
and crazy but we will take it a term at a time as always….
How do you feel about our
education system are you happy or unhappy, are your kids home schooled or maybe
in a private school, how do you keep up with it all?
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