Ministry of Education

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Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Engineering at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Melbourne Allen, has called on parents to make the home a place of learning for their children.

Mr. Allen, who was addressing a function to honour teachers held recently at the Mandeville Seventh Day Adventist Church, noted that some children are deficient in their studies as a result of parents not paying enough attention to their school work.

"What we are seeing is a situation where parents are sentencing their children to school and it ends there. The home must be the first school for every child where the parents are the teachers and the children are taught to respect authority, so that when they go into the formal school system, what they hear there is not strange to them," he stated.

The NCU lecturer further charged parents to guard and protect the development of their children.

"We must inspire our children with principles of truth, obedience, honour and integrity. Support them with virtues that will make them positive forces for the stability and uplifting of society. Students need to set realistic goals, and remember, without set goals, you will be led to just about anywhere that the wind blows you," Mr. Allen stated.

Urging parents to invest in their children's education, Mr. Allen said that the cost of not educating is incalculable. "If the 'me' is improved, country, community, school and churches will be better places," he said.

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