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Determined Parents To Opt: Even so, we must anticipate that there will always be a few who do not wish to co-operate with the school in this way, and all but the most determined parents to opt teachers will probably feel that this is inevitable. The questions that remain to be answered are these:
How does a school ensure that the maximum number (if not all) of its parents are involved in the scheme?
What can be done about the children whose parents finally do not wish to be involved?
Without the environmental stimulus, the child may entirely escape the predisposition; even when a mental disease has started, its progress is ordinarily determined parents to opt by factors other than heredity. No disorder is incurable because of its hereditary components (22, 1953). A follow-up study (31, 1945) of children of alcoholic and psychotic parents twenty years after they had been placed in foster homes, showed no child of psychotic parents who became psychotic arid none of alcoholic parents who became alcoholic. Practically all were leading useful lives, although 30 per cent showed evidence of emotional disturbances.
Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about parents and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept. |
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