PARENTS HAVE BEEN WARNED to stop placing the bulk of the responsibility for training children on the school system.
The admonishment has come from Coleridge & Parry principal Vincent Fergusson during the St Peter school’s speech day on Tuesday.
“The school, with its limited time and resources, cannot, and I say cannot, be the sole provider of the academic, social, emotional and physical needs of the child. The job of the school must be to shore up and act as a complement to the effort of the parents and other adults whose behaviour also impacts on the child,” he stressed. 
He said that from his observations, those parents who played their part and then embraced the support from the school and church produced more enlightened children. (RL)
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