The Desperate need to a huge focus on Parenting in NZ

From Radio NZ:

“More than a quarter of teachers in schools in poor neighbourhoods said most of their pupils had oral language below the level expected of them, compared to just 3 percent of new entrant teachers in schools in rich neighbourhoods.

School teachers said some children could not talk in sentences of more than four or five words, spent a lot of time on devices and had little interaction with books.”

As I discuss with Michael Laws below; ECEs and Schools are trying to cycle up Queen St towing an ocean liner to turn this situation around. I believe that we need a crown entity for Parenting and explain why in the clip.

If you want to see where our current patterns lead to, I have just done my annual data process to look at the achievements of every high school in NZ. There are approx. 430 schools in the process. The top 40 schools see 87% of their LEAVERS off with UE under their belt. For the bottom 40 schools it is 2.5%. Parenting is a huge part of this all the way through. Do we have the will to solve it?

(for the full data set including rankings for every high school please email me on alwyn.poole@gmail.com)

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