Issue81 All parents should be required to volunteer time...Review, please!!!

[chendw04]

All parents should be required to volunteer time to volunteer time to their children's schools.

 

Parents should not evade their responsibility to take good care of their children's education. As a feasible form, requiring parents to volunteer some time to their children's school seems quite an acceptable idea.

First of all, although it is the children that attend their schools, it does not equate that their school teachers take the whole accountability to look after them, both in safety and education, in particular for kids who go to elementary school. Parents with a sense of responsibility should not leave everything related with school education to teachers. They should participate in such educating process actively. For instance, in the volunteer time, probably one afternoon a week (since nowadays parents become busier than ever), parents attend all the courses their kids take, and observe how their kids perform. Also, teachers can expect feedback from the parents to see if there are any additional requests from the side of parents. Teachers can use this opportunity to make their teaching materials more accommodating to the needs of the students as well. Furthermore, parents can know with whom their kids are getting along and how their relationships develop. Since socialization is considerably important in the early years of the school children, to discover if there is any problem for the children to deal with their peers is highly critical. The present parents can instruct their kids when they return home and discuss the funny things they co-experience in school, which will be beneficial to parents-children relationship as well.

Secondly, to attend the volunteer time in children's schools is capable to strengthen the collaboration between parents and their children. Nowadays, it is not uncommon for many children to have the so-called generation gaps with their parents, which is, in fact, not an inevitable phenomenon if parents could spend more quality time with their kids. Undeniably, regardless of children education theory or what we find out in everyday cases, kids usually form their personality among the contact with their peers. Parents' influence upon their kids in modern families becomes thinner and thinner due to the fact that less and less time is contributed to kids. So to require parents to attend some volunteer time to their children's school will take back parents' role in the process of their kids' mental growth. They celebrate some school events together, which will build up parents-children's common memory so that parents are able to yield some crucial impact upon their kids especially when they find that their children need guidance.

All in all, it is a pity that parents become outsiders of their children's education. If this happens, it looks like that they are deprived of the rights to educate their own children since nowadays children receive most of their education from schools where for parents is like a concealed place simply because they don't have much time if not any to visit and stay there for a while. For the benefit of their children as well as for the healthy development of the parents-children relationship, it cannot be better if all the parents can be asked to some volunteer time to their children's schools.