Education, Parents, and Teachers…

After searching a bit on the web, I found a website that is not 100% dedicated to what’s education in terms of formal academic school but for parents also. The page is called Education.com, and it is a complete page committed to help and guide those teachers or parents that are a bit confused on some conflicts related to kids and teenagers. The page is divided in several topics to organize the information provided and to bring a bigger emphasis to some points that are more in the headlines nowadays. Some interesting topics that this webpage tackles are bullying, paying for college in today’s economy, obsessive compulsive disorders in children, or just how to know when an adolescent is lying. Besides it has an item called from “A to Z”, and there you can find any problem in alphabetic order, for instance if your kid has problems with his reading part, you just have to go to the letter “R” and find the word, then click on it and several option about reading are going to appear in order to make the your search easier. What mostly called my attention was the debate of the week, the name of the topic was “Should teachers have tenure?” (Tenure is like the right of a teacher of holding his/her position at his working place, a school for instance, not caring if he is no longer capable of giving proper classes anymore) and to debate the idea they put the opinions of two different experts in the education area arguing about the subject. In addition, the page gives you the possibility of commenting your own opinion, and by this opens the possibility of free expression among parents and teachers. Really interesting to read, quite similar to what’s going on in Chile nowadays, since it give us the perspective of what’s going on with the same subject in other countries, and by this getting different ideas of what a solution could be. If I were a parent, I would probably take a look of this page if a problem is presented in my child education’s life. Really helpful website, more for parents than for teachers but good anyway.