Parents accused of double standards in discipline expectations


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Nick Ward, chairman of the Boarding Schools Association, has said that parents must not permit their children to behave at home in a way they would not expect them to behave at school.

Mr Ward points to the problems faced by teachers if children come back to school

following school holidays where they have been able to do what they like, staying out late and clubs, for example, or drinking and smoking. He claims by not enforcing a parallel set of disciplines, parents are expecting schools ’to do their dirty work for them’, saying, ’Parents expect their children to immediately adapt to standards expected by the schools, which say that drinking and smoking and going to nightclubs is not acceptable and that you have to behave in an acceptable and responsible manner.’

The task is made harder by the fact that so-called role models are not setting good examples. According to Mr ward, ‘We also have the far more difficult task of promoting lifestyles to which society and some its leaders pay only lip service, whether this be in relation to sexual propriety, alcohol or drug abuse or the more fundamental qualities of good manners, honesty and integrity.’

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