I agree with the idea that parents today are more involved in their children’s education they were in the past.
To begin with, parents at this time are involved in the education of their kids earlier than before because they realize the importance of early education. In general, we can know easily the importance of early language education from the article that U.S. government recently has started the National Security Language Initiative, which seeks to create larger pool of language-proficient Americans by starting instruction at the early age. Based on that fact, most Korean parents want their kids to learn language early and they spend much more time to teach their children English or Chinese.
Another reason that current parents are more involved in their children’s education is because higher unemployment rate since global economic recess. It was much easier to get job in the past. However, it is very difficult for young people to get a good career nowadays and parents are always afraid that their children will not be able to get into university and later find a job. Therefore, they at this time more involves in their children’s grades and sometimes punish their children for doing poorly at school by giving them extra homework or do not let them go out to meet their friends.
Last but not least, parents these days can review, monitor, and trend their children’s performance at school easily because of the advancement of internet. In the past, parents could follow up their children’s grades only at specific terms. However, parents today can check their children’s grades or lifestyle at school every day only if they access the school’s internet. That convenience allows parents to spend more time for their children’s education.
In conclusion, Parents today are more involved in their children’s education compared to the past because they know the importance of early education that is recently issued, they hope their children will have a good job under higher unemployment rate, and they can observe their children’s education easily by the advancement of internet technology. |