ABC.NET – Rebecca Carmody
“West Australian Education Minister Peter Collier has urged parents to stop blaming schools for their children’s deficiencies and start doing more educating at home. Mr Collier said an increasing number of children were starting pre-primary without basic skills, including the ability to hold a pencil, paint a picture or count. He said parents simply were not putting in the time with their children that they used to, and this was being reflected in on-entry testing results. “Data from the 2015 on-entry assessments of all pre-primary children in public schools shows nearly one quarter lacked basic literacy skills, such as the ability to write their names or recognise simple rhyming words,” he said.”(more)