>The schools are not their to raise the child, that is the parents' job.
If primary education isn't child rearing, nothing is. Schools are absolutely there to raise the child.
If primary education isn't child rearing, nothing is. Schools are absolutely there to raise the child.
By that logic, what exactly is the parents job then?
Hasn't this been the status quo in all societies with "modern" education? Genuinely curious.
Why must only one person have a duty to raise a child? For most of human history "it takes a village" was canon with regard to child rearing.
On most days of the week, a school is often responsible for the welfare of a child for more hours of the day than the parent. Seven or eight hours of school, several hours of after school activities.
How can you not see this activity as child rearing?
So while you may view the role of school as an extension of parenting, many parents regularly stick their noses into the school environment to dictate their own norms, and you cannot have one teacher "parenting" 30 different ways.
My mother being a public school teacher for many decades, you'll get no disagreement from me that teachers are over extended and under resourced.
> There is no time for "parenting" tasks, beyond basic safety and welfare.
Most of parenting is safety, welfare, and being a positive example.
> And even if she did, the child's family's values are often not in alignment with my wife's. More than once, simple discipline tools have been challenged by parent to effectively remove any consequences for ill-behavior by the student.
I'm not sure consensus is a requirement for parenting. Even within marriages, consensus isn't guaranteed.
> So while you may view the role of school as an extension of parenting, many parents regularly stick their noses into the school environment to dictate their own norms, and you cannot have one teacher "parenting" 30 different ways.
I don't really see it as a view. Rather an observed fact. Whether they are equipped to do it well or poorly with or without conflict are details about the mode and quality with which they help raise a child rather. They rear our children by virtue of being a primary authority figure and adult mentor for most of their lives previous to adulthood.
"Parenting" is a bit of a nebulous term. Many don't think most parents do a good job of parenting. But child rearing is unambiguous. The school system undoubtedly rears our children.
The largest single factor on a student's educational outcomes is not any in-school factor, but the educational background and socioeconomic status of their parents.
The schools are not their to raise the child, that is the parents' job.
School is there to raise children, but they do play a lesser role compared to parents and cannot make up for absent parents. It is really to outsource the parts of child rearing that we can both scale up and have a general consensus on. (And to some extent, it does sometimes seem to be about babysitting.)