THE ABSENCE OF proper parenting is causing problems for children in the island’s school system.
This is according to parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Education, Senator Harry Husbands, who said a worrying lack of good parenting was at the core of problems schoolchildren were encountering.
Speaking at the Barbados National Council of Parent-Teacher Associations’ (NCPTA) annual general meeting on Saturday, Husbands said that while schools and teachers were important, parents were central to the socialisation of children in Barbados.
To prove his point, he noted that reports from the Ministry of Education’s Student Services, which deals with student deviancy and delinquency, revealed that poor parenting was at the core of many of the children’s problems. (AD)
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