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Parents Were Wanting: More than once we have been rung up by a school asking for more information, since a number of its parents were wanting to know why their children's school wasn't providing a PACT scheme like the one ^ down the road! When all this evidence is added to that of the J: tremendous parental response to PACT schemes in the schools, we cannot be left in any doubt about parents' feelings towards their children's learning. Why is it, then, that so many teachers , find parents apathetic - even hostile - toward school and * education, especially in the inner-city areas?
Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about parents and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the parents with whom this partnership is to be formed have their own opinions and feelings, which need into account. Teachers will find it possible to devise a set of guidelines for use by parents which they can feel perfectly confident about sharing. In our experience, though, there are one or two temptations to beware of One is to make your advice to parents much too complex, because of anxiety about parents getting it 'wrong'.
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