Published: 23 August 2011

Our children suffer because this State doesn't value parents

SITTING in the sun with my daughter doing the final nit-check of the summer, I asked her if she was excited about going back to school. Yes, she said, she was. But she was worried about it too. She never understood her homework.

A worm of anxiety wriggled in my heart. All my kids get far worse results for homework than for class work. What that really means is that my grades for supervision are far worse than theirs for school work.

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