Fiona Millar says his research, published in a new conversation with parents shows that parents want for their children and schools
The fall semester begins invariably a mixture of emotions, especially for parents with children of a new school. My situation is slightly different. After almost 24 years as a parent, I watch my youngest son starting his senior year.
In a sense, it feels liberating, but sad in another. I know I'll miss not having the personal experience of seeing schools being transformed before my eyes, meet inspiring teachers, how hard working young people today and see their characters in the training, a positive, growing up with and learning from a wide section of your local community.
In the torrent of often highly subjective, anecdotal comments and analysis on this subject, the experience of most parents seem to rarely heard, so I was intrigued that you are given the opportunity to earlier this year to work with the life of love within the family and the Pearson Centre for Political and learning in a project to deepen what parents really want for their children and schools.
Our report, published today, gives a vision and challenges for schools and politicians. On the one hand, suggests that successive governments should be given a collective pat on the back. Almost all parents surveyed and found that, from a wide range of backgrounds and regions are more demanding and knowledgeable, taking their children on their first choice of school and feel quite satisfied with the delivery once on site.
are exercising choice, but in one. Much more sophisticated and realistic than originally planned Accurate data on inspections and tests and test results are used, but as part of a complex mixture, impressionistic information on proximity and the "soft "Local knowledge is so important.
And there's a hunger for more light and different from a league table or a set of government data will never be able to provide. Parents want a more rounded, balanced picture of how their children and their schools are run, not just academic. Bullying, exclusions, behavior management, personal development and happiness of students, views of other parents and even curricula and training of principals and teachers were mentioned. You also want the information regularly in an easy to digest, preferably straight from school, either by text, email or via the school website.
A mother of two children told us that he considers the work of raising children to be a "puzzle". Ofsted and test and test results are important, but only a small part of the image. It summarizes the views of parents of many others when he said he wanted to be able to see the "big picture". In my 20 years as a parent, much has changed for the better. Schools have improved and become more responsible. But if this process will continue - and with parents in the driver's seat, as we are constantly told that the first - we need to think carefully about what the "big picture" look like
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