Parental input vital, says school exec

By ELIAS LARI
PARENTS play a very important role in ensuring their children receive a better education, an educationist says.
“What is invested now is what their children will harvest in future. If parents do not wash their children’s clothes or provide lunch, bus fare or educate them properly at home, then this will result in their child receiving poor marks at school and they will fail in their education,” Rebiamul Primary School board chairman Simon Kama said in Mt Hagen, Western Highlands, on Wednesday during the graduation of Grade 8 there.
Kama said if parents did not know their role in their children’s education “this will not help them at all”.
He said parents must recognise the importance of education because parents and children would benefit.
He said education was a right children must receive and it depended on how they were treated and sent to school by parents.
“It doesn’t look good when a student does not wash or wear dirty uniforms to school,” Kama said.
He said they were contributing factors that made a student lose interest in schooling.
He said parents must sometimes ask themselves how they had been contributing to their children’s education.
Kama said it was important for people to get their focus right and help educate their children.
He said if parents did not give priority to education they must not blame their children for failing.
Kama said many people were doing nothing and causing many law and order problems in their communities because they had not been educated properly.