Classroom education issues have a lot to do with parenting, not class size or attendees

Often people in our civilization and society are very quick to blame our educational system and/or teachers. Others will blame the school district and the number of children per classroom, and while the number of children per classroom is vitally important for learning and individual help, we must not forget all the facts.

For example, many of the educational issues and problems in our schools have less to do with the size of the classroom, but with the behavior patterns that children learned from their parents, which they bring to the classroom and act out. Without control of the classroom there will be little teaching because it will be more like babysitting.

Many people believe that we need more teacher assistants in the classroom, this is hard to deny and yet we look at other cultures like China and Japan where there are many children per classroom and yet all children learn and behave at the same time. . So while classroom size is an issue, one thing we’re not addressing enough is the wayward kids who show up to school every day.

Since parents often like to blame the school district, the principal, the teachers, and everyone else but themselves, in the end, many other problems these children have at school bring them to school from home. We need to address the issue of poor parenting and how that affects performance in the classroom. Please consider this in 2006.