Family context is responsible for 70% of the school development of a student

  • Family context is responsible for 70% of the school development of a student, the other 30% is school acomplishment, either on a positive or a negative basis. The conclusion arouse from the revision of literature regarding this subject in Brazil, on a research made by Fundação Itaú Social. [ Estadão, 30/10/2008]
And, in the sense of this, society must do a necessary revision of family relations regarding quality as well as time spent together by parents and sons. The amount of time given to children nowadays is very short, there is not enough time for dialogue. Parents listen very little to what their children have to say. The participation on their life is smaller from year to year. If the parents don't participate they are opening spaces for other influences, including the ones that are negative and destructive for their sons and daughters development.

School should also give some time to review its relations with the students and this atualization pass through the creation of more tide and straight relationships with the families, making them participate not only on the school results [grades] of their children, but specially on understanding in what kind of school they study, how is it possible to cooperate with education and, even, learning in the same classrooms of their sons and daughters.

For instance, schools could help parents learn about computers and the internet or even stimulate the practice of sports or the enrollment in cultural activities. Music or Reading projects with the participation of parents and sons would also be very interesting actions to straighten up the relations between family and school, parents and children. Many parents don't do it because they didn't have contact with this kind of activities or resources...

On resume, it is necessary to use the information we are getting to tiden up the relationship between parents and sons, schools and family. Knowing that families are decisive to school development of their children is not enough, we need to transform and use this knowledge...

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