EDUCATION Minister Ronald Thwaites says the ministry is doing its part
to promote good parenting as a key element in the education process.
Thwaites, who was addressing the school leaving and prize giving
ceremony of the Ferncourt High School on June 26, stated that the
"greatest cramp to effective education in Jamaica is inadequate
parenting".
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He said it is in recognition of the important role that parents play in
their children's education and development that the ministry has set up a
National Parenting Commission.
The work of the commission, he said, will involve the establishment of
parenting advisory offices across the island "so that we can give
support for those who are parents, or who are going to be parents, so
that they may know and play their role better."
Thwaites called on the approximately 200 graduates to pledge to be good
parents to their children when they decide to start families.
"We have to craft a new vision of family, a joyous vision, a vision of
wholesomeness if we are really going to be a developed society, if we
are going to have a society of settled people, and of responsible child
bearing," he stated.
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