Education Issues in the Classroom is Much About Parenting not Class Size or Assistants

Often people in our civilization and society are very quick to blame our educational system and or the teachers. Others will blame the school district and the number of kids per classroom and although the number of kids per classroom is vitally important to learning and individual one-on-one help, we should not forget all the facts.

For instance, many of the educational issues and problems in our schools are not so much about classroom size, but rather behavioral patterns that the children learned from their parents, which they take to the classroom and act out. Without control of the classroom there will be little teaching going on because it will be more like babysitting.

Many people believe 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 many children per classroom and yet all the children learn and they are behaving at the same time. So, whereas classroom size is an issue one thing we are not addressing enough of are the unruly children who show up for school each day.

As parents often like to blame the school district, principal, teachers and everyone else but themselves, in the end many other problems that these kids have in school they bring to the 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.