In the 1980s I worked at one of the secondary schools in my country. Even though I wasn't a teacher, I was friends with quite a few of them. Sometimes they would show me the papers of some of their students. In a school that catered to students aged 14 years to 18years, I was appalled at the fact that a lot of these students could neither spell nor write sentences correctly.
That was about 25 to 30 years ago. The children that I help with now are the most likely the children or grandchildren of that generation of students. So lets look at this situation: if in the 1980s and 1990s the children could not read or write properly, and most times did not even seem to care, how then could they help their children with their schoolwork?
Someone told me recently that a parent of one of the students at the Homework center was angry because, apparently, their child's homework was not being done. He seemed to think that his child's homework was the sole responsibility of the facilitators. He surely didn't have no imput in this, of course not!
A lot of parents want to foist their responsibilities for nurturing and teaching their offspring on the teacher, thinking that they don't have anything to do. Some genuinely may not have the time always to do so, but however little or much, time must be made for these two very important duties. Remember, God gave children as a gift and a responsibility. We are then only stewards of these gifts. When Jesus Christ comes again, will He find us faithful?
"Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)
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