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PARENTS URGED TO PLAY A MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN THEIR CHILDREN’S EDUCATION

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July 6, 2017
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PARENTS URGED TO PLAY A MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN THEIR CHILDREN’S EDUCATION
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Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 06, 2017 (SKNIS):  Dr. Tricia Esdaille, Chief Education Officer (CEO) in the Ministry of Education, urged parents to get more involved in their child’s/ward’s education, as it will prove beneficial to both individuals in the long run.

Appearing on Wednesday’s (July 05) edition of “Working for You”, Dr. Esdaille noted that parents need to visit their child’s school at all levels to find out what is going on and how that child is coping, as records show that parents only visit the schools early on in the term.

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“When children enter secondary school, the parents come for the first few meetings and then they disappear and come back in fifth form, maybe end of fourth form if they are worried about them going to fifth form,” she said, adding that this is a bad practice and parents have limited knowledge as to what takes place in schools and with their children/wards, as the times they miss are critical because during the first two years of secondary school students are exposed to a whole host of subjects.  “The idea being that they will choose a focus as they go into third form but where will that focus come from? Who is going to guide them?”

The CEO said that the Ministry of Education is focusing on ensuring that it builds a “programme of career services and development into the early stages of secondary school experience to give more guidance to students in terms of developing the areas of interest and strength”.

“But parents need to be as involved in this process. Yes, they are young but you need to start talking to your children about what interest them because there is nothing better than making a living doing something you love,” she said, noting that in order for children to identify their interest, active conversations relating to school must take place. “And then, [we must] begin to think about how we are going to support our children so that when the decision making time comes, they are choosing subjects that would lend themselves to what they might want to do in the future.”

She added that the ministry, in particular, her office, is looking to build on career services for the academic year 2017-2018. She further stated that a series of meetings with secondary school principals will be carried out “to look at the programming at first and second form levels to speak directly to the issue of subject offerings” and how to get children more focused on identifying their strengths and areas of interest, so that by the time they are ready to leave school they will not be confused as to what they want to do with their lives. 

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