Delivering education: Realizing effective parent/teacher teamwork

Parents at Rosignol Secondary School

The vast majority of parents send their children off to school every day hoping that they would do well though a smaller number actually address the formal education of their children from the standpoint of a carefully laid out plan designed to – as far as possible – ensure that they do well.

On the whole, a child’s success in school is a function of his or her own personal discipline and determination to do well. Innate ability and the learning environment in which the child functions.

Here, the term learning environment should not be taken to mean simply the formal school system. It extends to the home, even the community and the extent to which the environment outside the