Introduction
Education is regarded as the key element in shaping the life of a child. It is a platform where children gain knowledge on how to associate with people in the society. Further, Children gain skills that help them in performing various tasks in the workplace. Education is the basic requirement for one to be employed in a job. The level of education determines the wage to be rewarded to any employee. Education covers different aspects of life. Besides being taught in class children are also informed about the elements a good social life. These elements include: peace, trust, obedience and participation in physical activities for a healthy body.
PART 1
However, Children cannot perform well in education without support from their parents or guardians. Active participation of parents in their children education progress is an ingredient to their success. In the current era Parents rarely allocate time to interact with their children about education and social matters. Work consumes most of their time as children are left to the mercy of house helps and teachers. Some of the issues that negatively influence a child’s education and social life include:
Work Commitment
This is the main excuse given by parents to their children and teachers. They claim that they dedicate much time in their job to finance their children’s education.
Negligence
Some parents claim that a teacher can monitor the child better than them. They do not engage in any school activity claiming that their only concern is to pay the teachers to mould the children both socially and academically.
Information Asymmetry
Some children do not inform their parent of any meeting or activity in the school. Some fear that their parent s will mock them due to their poor performance in front of their peers.
Family commitments
Parents attribute engagement in family matters as the reason why do not attend school events. Instead, they send representatives to evade payment of fines.
Fear of Reprimand
Some parents feel that teachers will blame them for the poor performance of their children. To avoid owning up non-committal to their children’s performance, they give lame excuses to avoid the meeting
Illiteracy
Though most parents have come of age, a number of them are still overwhelmed by illiteracy. They never went to school and therefore any school activity is useless to them.
Harmonizing all these weaknesses in families into a common problem, a strategy will be necessary to change their attitude towards their effort in shaping their children’s career.
Strategy
A family event that will bring the school administration, parents and students together will be a key tool in sensitizing the need for concerted effort to boost academic and social performance among students. The vent will be titled “Family-fun day” The event will be organized on every last Sunday of the month. Sunday will be most appropriate day since most parents do not work on Sundays and dedicate the day to attend church and rest. The day will incorporate a church service, academic clinic and family interaction from the rest of the day. The event will occur in the school compound to entice parents to attend the event.
Besides, I will utilize the opportunity to invite counselors and academic experts to highlight the importance of parent participation in children’s education. The event will start with a church service where parents, children and teachers will converge for the service. The theme will revolve around the role of parents with reference to the biblical teachings. This will inculcate a sense of self-reflection n those parents who fail in their responsibility.
In addition, Academic clinic will follow where students, parents and teachers will interact harmoniously without bias. Each party will be granted equal chance for expression. Academic experts will seize the opportunity to challenge negligent parents. Eventually, a field event involving extra-curricular activities will be organized in the event. All parties will play against each other to cement good relationship among parents, teachers and students. Winners will be awarded with memorable gifts. Gifts given to students will be awarded to their parents to instill sense of responsibility on them. This will ensure that parent realize their role in their children’s life. As all these activities occur, renowned artists will grace the occasion and entertain the audience. This will attract those parents who could be attracted by the presence of artists, and get involved in the school affairs. As a last resort, all children whose parents do not attend the event shall be discontinued from school. This will caution the parents against absconding from their responsibility.
Two performances will be acted concurrently recollecting the evolution of education and its impact to the society. The other will detail life struggle of children whose parents failed to monitor them during their school life. The performance will involve traditional cultural practices and the current practices brought about by education evolution.
PART 2
Determining the type of Program that would meet the Family’s Needs
Families have different challenges that influence their absence in school activities. These challenges range from work, ignorance, poverty, fear, illiteracy and many others. To determine the appropriate program that would accommodate all these challenges, I will use the criteria of an all-inclusive event. This event will have to address these challenges either directly or indirectly.
Planning strategy
Unless some force is applied some parents will still ignore the invitation.to guarantee of a 955 attendance, I will issue stern instructions to the parents. Those parents or guardians who would not attend the event risk forfeiting their children’s chance to proceed with their studies. Further hefty fines will be imposed. No parent would want his or her children discontinued from school or pay hefty fine. To avoid lame excuses, the event shall be held either on a weekend or on a public holiday during the semester.
Threats of discontinuation from school and hefty fines might make the parents and guardians feel uncomfortable during the event. To ensure they are contented, the following will form the event’s agenda
Parent-students learning session
Parents usually do not understand what teachers and students go through to understand curriculum content. This will provide an interactive session that most parents miss at home at the expense of their careers. Parents will act as teachers and teach their children on anything ranging from academic to social life. Students will be allowed to exhale their problems to the parents without intimidation. This strategy will enhance cohesion between parents and their children.
Parents-teachers forum
This interaction eliminates fear among parents who avoid reprimand from teachers. The session will be free for parents to express themselves about the challenges they encounter at home and how the school can assist to enhance their children’s learning.
Awards of recognition
Those parents who attend the forum will be awarded for their dedication towards their children’s progress. Besides exemplary students in curricular and extra-curricular activities will be honored to recognize diversity of talents among children
How to enhance home school –community partnership
During the session, i would introduce a welfare program that will assist needy parents in paying school fees and buying uniforms. This strategy will address the challenge of those parents who avoid school events in fear of mockery and school fees arrears. This enhances supporting environment. Further, cohesion among parents will be cultivated
Cultural session
In any institution, students have different cultural backgrounds and conform to certain beliefs. Students will be allowed to demonstrate their cultural beliefs towards education through performances. This will sensitize the parents and encourage those with old cultural beliefs to adopt their neighbors to improve their children’s academic social life. For instance, some parent belief that a girl child should not be educated as much as the boy child should.
Conclusion
This event will harmonize all challenges that deter parents from actively participating in children’s activities and facilitate an enabling environment for all relevant parties to participate.
